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Welcome!
Biggar Writers Group has been going for a goodly number of years now. In fact nobody who is currently with the Group can remember when or how or indeed why it started. Reports that there is reference to it in Leviticus, however, are greatly exaggerated.
The Group used to meet at Brownsbank Cottage, the last home of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, in the ‘White Shed’ that an admirer had built for him to write in (but in which the cantankerous auld devil then refused to write), and in the cottage itself on snell winter nights under the sardonic gaze of his late wife Valda’s wallie dugs.
As its numbers grew, the Group removed to the committee room in Biggar Municipal Hall, where it met every other Monday night for a cup of tea and a blether… and occasional fisticuffs with the Community Council or the Embroiderers’ Guild when it found that the room has been double-booked. Following the banking crisis, after which the Council hiked its room hire charges, the Group decamped to the Archive Room in the neighbouring Moat Park Heritage Centre, where it also now enjoys disabled access.
The Group currently has 22 members, with an average regular attendance of around 8 - 10ish, traveling from as far afield as Crawfordjohn, Kirkfieldbank, Tarbrax, and West Linton in the Borders. We come in all shapes and genres. We do mainly what our American cousins call 'workshopping'. Members bring work and work-in-progress to share with and get feedback from other members of the Group, and to exchange tips and advice on the more ‘crafty’ aspects of creative writing… and on the Holy Grail of getting published.
If you would like to find out more about Biggar Writers, get in touch using the form on the ‘Contact Us’ page. Or just come along and join us at one of our meetings, and we'll put another teabag in the pot.
Biggar Writers Group is a registered Scottish charity
Charity Number SCO39762
