Fiction – Laura Marney & Tim Pears, Guest Jackie Kay

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 20th Jul - Sat 25th Jul, 2015
12:00pm

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT

Through workshops, writing practice, giving and receiving feedback with other writers and tutors, stimulating and being stimulated with new perspectives this course will help you discover what you really want to write. Through reading, writing, thinking, walking, cooking, and more writing, we’ll help you find the best way for you to write it. Come and focus on your story in a nurturing environment. The tutors promise not to bite.

Please note, due to unforeseen circumstances, Brian McCabe is unable to teach this course. Tim Pears will tutor instead. 

Laura Marney’s novels include: No Wonder I Take a Drink, Nobody loves a Ginger Baby, Only Strange People go to Church, My Best Friend has Issues and her latest For Faughie’s Sake. She lectures in Creative Writing at Glasgow University.
www.saraband.net

Tim Pears was born in 1956, grew up in Devon and left school at sixteen.   He has published eight novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves, Landed and In the Light of Morning. He has taught creative writing for Arvon, the University of Oxford, and others.
www.timpears.com

Guest:

Jackie Kay is a multi-prizewinning novelist, memoir writer, playwright and poet. She won the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2012 with Red Dust Road. She was awarded an MBE in 2006, and teaches creative writing at Newcastle University.

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