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This course, with Michael J Malone and Caro Ramsay, offers an opportunity to craft compelling crime fiction. An immersive course to take you from blank page to polishing the final draft with entertaining workshops on the nuts and bolts for creating chilling villains, twisty plots and perfect prose.

This week will be a deep dive  into a continuum of approaches for short stories, from the plotted to the subversive, from the serious to the mischievous. For writers who have already tried the form and now want their short stories to be even better.  

Paperboats is a Scotland-based collective of writers, global in outlook, who focus on nature and our environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world.

Summer starts to make itself known in the Scottish Highlands in June, as the days stretch towards the solstice. Make the most of extra daylight and stretch your metaphorical writer legs during our June retreat.

How might words, images or a mixture of both help communicate the moments, atmospheres, feelings and complexities that you’re looking to capture and convey? This masterclass is about thinking through the ways in which we might give expression to the multifaceted nature of our experiences and encounters with places and spaces in playful and thoughtful ways.