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Join us on for calm hours in the hills, with a group of fellow writers, beautiful surroundings and a continuous stream of cakes.

This online masterclass will demonstrate how existing sentences can be interrogated for narrative opportunities you may not otherwise have considered and as starting points to enrich description and action so that you can create a more inhabited, encompassing story.

Bring your ideas and your writing materials for a week with like-minded writers and the chance to make some headway with your writing projects.

Join Heather to explore the impact of setting, characters and tropes on romance and how we use it, get oriented on worldbuilding and its implications and start thinking about when (and if) to let your poor characters finally kiss.

On this course, writers Kevin MacNeil and Jessie Greengrass will help you navigate through frequently encountered obstacles including pace, setting, and dialogue. They will show you how to strengthen your work's foundations by considering meaning, purpose, and direction.

Join Elizabeth Reeder online as you work on your long-form fiction or creative non-fiction project. This course offers an open, supportive, dedicated space for you to write a work-in-progress in the company of other writers, with Elizabeth building and holding a kind and supportive frame within which we can do our best work.   Includes craft sessions, writing spaces, group feedback, one-to-one tutorials and the chance to share your work with your group.

Surrounded by breathtaking views and the company of fellow writers, find the focus and time you need to bring your words to life.

Aimed at writers at all stages in their careers who are keen to put some spice back into their writing and live a healthy, sustainable life as a poet. We'll use workshops, discussions, examples and ladlefuls of useful tips to guide you through a sequence of dos and donts that will help revitalise your writing and enrich your poems with a longer shelf life.

Join Boo Hewerdine to examine the reasons why a song may or may not work. Boo will take both a well-known song and one of his own songs and look at lyrics, melody, chord progressions and the editing process.

Join award-winning novelist Liz Hyder online for a month to explore the joyful art of harnessing your imagination to build fictional worlds.

Join us for the first workshop of the FIRST STAGES programme on 30th July at Eden Court in Inverness.

Join us for the second workshop of the FIRST STAGES programme on 31st July at Belladrum Festival!