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Join poet Jen Hadfield online this summer for 'Ecopoetics', the last in her Three Seasons of Poetry exploring different themes and poetic forms.

Join writer Catherine Simpson online for a month and explore how to shape your own memoir: it's your story. With guest reader, Graham Morgan.

Join this year's Highland Book Prize Shortlisted authors, Ali Smith, Tony Davidson, Duncan Gillies, and Cynthia Rogerson, as we celebrate each of their books with conversation and readings online, before we announce the winner of the Highland Book Prize 2022.

How does place write to us and how might we write in place? In this course we will practice being in, attending to and writing about place in poetry and prose.

Join us for the new monthly open writing space offering time and space to work on your project.

This course celebrates open-minded and weird-minded thinkers and writers. Bring a work in progress, a kernel of an idea, or a spark of curiosity and enthusiasm for language. 

In this one-hour online session delivered via Zoom, memoir writer Graham Morgan will read from his work and be in conversation with Catherine Simpson, writer and tutor of Moniack in a Month: Memoir. There will also be a short time for questions from our audience.

Join Hamish MacDonald to try your hand at poetry and spoken word! This taster is offered as part of the Creativity and Care Programme for care experienced young people aged 14-30.

Join Angus Clyne to try your hand at woodturning! This taster is offered as part of the Creativity and Care Programme for care experienced young people aged 14-30.

Whether you're new to writing the teenage voice, or already have a YA novel well under way, these experienced, award-winning tutors will guide you through the joys and challenges of finding your teenage voice in your fiction.

Join Priscilla Mante to explore how to start your story off strong.