Memoir – Janice Galloway & Jennie Erdal, Guest Candia McWilliam

Memoir - Janice Galloway & Jennie Erdal, Guest Candia McWilliam

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 14th Sep - Sat 19th Sep, 2015
12:00pm

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


Everyone has at least one story: How best to tell it in writing is the crucial question. In joint and individual sessions the tutors will offer guidance on different approaches to memoir writing, the role of memory and imagination within it, ways in which the narrative can be shaped and sustained, and the blurred lines between memoir and fiction. The vital importance of voice, place, character, perspective and structure will also be explored. Best suited to writers with some experience and plenty of questions for discussion.

Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire and is a multi-award winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, Scottish First Book, Italia Premio Acerbi and Aer Lingus Awards, and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Since, Janice has published a further two novels, two books of short stories, one volume of anti-memoir, two collaborative books of short fiction and poetry with sculptor Anne Bevan, libretti, poems and one lonely play.

Jennie Erdal’s memoir Ghosting: A Double Life became an international best seller and Radio 4 Book of the Week.  Her novel The Missing Shade of Blue is about love, loss and the illusory nature of happiness.  She teaches creative writing at the University of Dundee.

Guest:

Candia McWilliam’s first novel A Case of Knives, published in 1988, was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize, and A Little Stranger was published in 1989. Both books won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. Debatable Lands, published in 1994, won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year. A memoir on losing her sight, What to Look for in Winter, was published in 2010.


Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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