Fiction Retreat – Ian Stephen & Elizabeth Reeder, Guest: Andrew O’Hagan

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 26th Sep - Sat 1st Oct, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

‘You can’t wait for inspiration,’ said Jack London. ‘You have to go after it with a club.’ With a series of one-to-one tutorials, these tutors will arm you with clubs to grab the creative energy necessary for your writing. The tutors will draw upon years of experience as professional writers to help you take away anxieties about the act of writing and relish the hunt for a form which can only be found in the language. This course is open to everyone, but will especially suit writers with works in progress.

Ian Stephen is an Isle of Lewis writer, whose first novel The Book of Death and Fish exploring Lewis life, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. He was the inaugural winner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Award, and the first Artist in Residence at StAnza, Scotland’s Poetry Festival. His work has been performed and published internationally.
www.ianstephen.co.uk

Elizabeth Reeder, originally from Chicago, lives in Scotland and is the author of two critically acclaimed novels Ramshackle & Fremont. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and is co-convener of that programme. Her website is ekreeder.com and she in on twitter @ekreeder

Andrew O’Hagan is one of his generation’s most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain and the part it plays in the world. He has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is editor at large of the London Review of Books and he lives in London. His most recent novel is The Illuminations (Faber, 2015).

Unfortunately, due to circumstances outwith his control, the original tutor for this course, Jens Christian Grøndahl, is no longer able to attend. 

On this course, tutors will read a sample of your work ahead of time to get a feel for your work. Details of how and when to submit this will be sent to you in the course notes upon booking.

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