November Forth Friday

We are at the Curly Coo in Barnton Street Stirling at 7:00pm this Friday (25th November).
There's no need for writers to feel like we're out on a limb in Scotland these days. Current Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland), Elizabeth Rimmer, will be leading discussions on writing organisations around Scotland and what they can do to help writers branch out, particularly the work of the Federation and the Scottish Writers Centre.
All this as well as the usual opportunities to socialise, make new contacts with other writers in your genre - and maybe try out kinds of writing you've never thought of - share news, find out about writers groups throughout the Forth Valley, hear about new writing opportunities and listen to up-and-coming writing from aroundabout, of course.
See you there!

[Untitled] Falkirk - a guest post

[Untitled] produce a bi-annual high quality gloss magazine that aims to promote the writing and visual art of people based in and around Falkirk. Twice a year [Untitled] has an open call for submissions in which anyone can submit their work for consideration. I'm pleased to say that issue 7 went to the printers today. To date [Untitled] has published numerous emerging writers and artists from Falkirk as well as some established names from the area such as Gordon Legge, Adam Stafford and Alan Bissett.

As well as producing a bi-annual magazine, [Untitled] also host frequent events including the open mic event Wooer With Words which takes place on the first Saturday of month. Each month we have an open call for writers from across Scotland to come to Falkirk to perform their writing for the first time or to a new audience. WWW will return in the new year. In addition to Wooer With Words [Untitled] has hosted several large events which aim to provide emerging writers from Falkirk to share a platform with some of the country's most well known writers, to date writers from Falkirk have shared a stage with the likes of Janice Galloway, and Liz Lochhead. Earlier this year saw [Untitled] host it's first show in Stirling as part of the Shindig Festival, the line up included a wealth of talented writers from Scotland such as Rachel McCrum, Loki and Katie Ailes. We were extremely pleased to bring Salford poet Mike Garry back to Central Scotland. If you would like to find out more about [Untitled] please visit www.untitledfalkirk.co.uk. 

You can follow [Untitled] at http://untitledfalkirk.blogspot.co.uk/
or on twitter at @untitledlitmag

This was a guest post written by Craig Allan. If there are other local writers' organisations who would like to feature on this site, please contact us a forthvalleywriters@gmail.com

Forth Friday 25th November

The next Forth Friday event will be on the 25th November at 7:00 at the Curly Coo, Barnton Street in Stirling.

• There will be a relaxed period for meeting other local writers, networking and exchanging the news, a chance to hear about upcoming events, local writers groups, calls for submission and members' successes
• a discussion  on the topic of Resources for Writers. Elizabeth Rimmer (current Makar for the Federation) will talk about the work of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and poet and novelist Charlie Gracie will outline developments at the Scottish Writers Centre
• readings from members - prose, poetry or spoken word.

Come along - writers at all levels of development,working in any genre - come and find out what's happening in the Forth Valley!