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

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

This course will help you conquer (or at least manage!) your fear of the blank page. By the end of the week you’ll be able to generate new ideas, turn your own experiences and memories into fiction and handle the basics of structuring a scene, using dialogue, developing description and exploring themes that interest you in fresh and original ways.

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

Jenn Ashworth’s novels include A Kind of Intimacy and Cold Light.  She won the Betty Trask Award in 2010, and lectures in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.  Her work has been translated into many languages.
www.jennashworh.co.uk

Guest:

Anne Donovan is the author of the short-story collection, Hieroglyphics and three novels: the Orange Prize short-listed Buddha Da, Being Emily and, most recently, Gone Are The Leaves, all published by Canongate.

New Writers’ Bursary

Are you taking your first steps in fiction?
Would you benefit from an intensive week’s tuition?

We have earmarked part of our bursary fund specifically to support new writers. We are offering three bursaries of £200 each, towards the course fee on Let Us Begin. Please contact info@moniackmhor.org.uk for an application pack.

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