Year: 2018

“This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.” (Emma by Jane Austen.) We would agree entirely with Jane, provided you […]

Here’s Craig’s rundown of the events at our last meeting of 2018. Present – Abbie, Aileen, Colin, Craig, David C, David F, Ray, Richard, Sue and George Apologies – Fiona, Roddie, Rosie We started by welcoming along a new face to the group, George, who had come along to see what we do, and who […]

The Nethergate Writers are in the news! (Taken from The Courier – 04/12/18). And remember, if you can’t make it along to Waterstones, you can order a copy of 50 Shades of Tay directly from us right here.

Roddie McKenzie had a piece in last weekend’s Courier about having one of his stories selected for inclusion in this year’s Scottish Book Week anthology, ‘Rebel’.

Last week was Book Week Scotland and to mark the occasion the Scottish Book Trust published a collection of short stories called Rebel, and one of them was by a Nethergate Writer. Roddie McKenzie, writing as Docboy, had his story ‘Beer, Loathing and Air Piracy’ chosen for inclusion from amongst the many submissions. One hundred […]

Craig has all the news from our most recent meeting Nethergate Writers Meeting – 3rd October 2018 Present – Abby, Craig, Richard, Roddie, Sue Apologies – Aileen, Colin, David C, David F, Rosie 1 – Steve Finan from DC Thomson Media Heritage For the first half of the meeting we were visited by Steve Finan, […]

It’s National Poetry Day today, so here’s something from one our group’s poets – Richard Gillies Tedious Talks on Telemetry Rehearsed smugness, wry smile, I agree with the sentiment it’s all vile. Let’s return a certain uncertainty, tripping on a wire, All this mock gravitas, it’s patently dire. Oh for a little deliberation, some shuffling […]

Getting back on track after the excitement of our book launch, Sue provides us with the update this week. Nethergate Writers’ Meeting Wednesday 19th September 2018 Minutes by Sue, 24 September 2018 Present: David C, Craig, Rosie, Roddie, Richard, Sue Apologies: Abby, Aileen, David F 1. Writing The first piece of work was by David […]

In all the excitement of our book launch last month, it seems some of our regular reports slipped through the nets. So, for those of you following along at home, here’s Roddie’s report on our meeting from the 8th of August, 2018. Nethergate Writers Meeting 8/8/18 at The Avery Present: Craig, Roddie, David C, Rosie, […]

On Thursday the 23rd of August, 2018, the Nethergate Writers launched our latest collection, 50 Shades of Tay, in Waterstones Dundee, and the evening was a great success. Over 50 friends, family, and curious members of the general public came along to hear readings from some of our members, as well as taking the chance […]