Tutored Memoir Retreat – Kapka Kassabova & Rachel Kelly, Guest: Richard Holloway

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 4th Jul - Sat 9th Jul, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

‘Anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to last a lifetime,’ said Flannery O’Connor. This is a course for writers at any level, who are ready to turn personal experience into something artistically whole and readable. Bring works in progress, or simply an urge to tell your own story. The week will offer time to focus on your work, as well as several tailored tutorials with each tutor. A course to hone the art of telling the truth in a literary way.

Kapka Kassabova grew up in Bulgaria, was universtiy-educated in New Zealand and is now settled in the Scottish Highlands. She is a poet, novelist and author of the memoirs Street Without a Name, shortlisted for the Prix du Livre European, and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story, shortlisted for the Scottish Book Awards. www.kapka-kassabova.com

Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist and author of the bestselling memoir Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me – My Journey Through Depression. Her new book is called Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness. She is also co-editor of the children’s poetry anthology If: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility. www.rachel-kelly.net

Richard Holloway is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the memoirs Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt, and Looking in the Distance. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and won the PEN-Ackerley Prize. He was Bishop of Edinburgh till he stood down in 2000, and among his many accolades, was chair of the Scottish Arts Council from 2005-2010.

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