Fiction – Jane Rogers, Guest: Helen Dunmore

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 2nd May - Sat 7th May, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

Finding Your Voice

Plotting and structure are key to finding your fictional voice, as is writing succinctly. This course will help you distil your fiction to its essence, making your characters and narrator complete. Multiple award winning writer Jane Rogers is experienced in using the right voice to evoke other places and times, and will guide you towards finding your own.

This course will run with a maximum of seven participants. Cynthia Rogerson will run a guest workshop on Wednesday.

Jane Rogers has written nine novels including Island, Mr Wroe’s Virgins, The Voyage Home, and The Testament of Jessie Lamb, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Arthur C Clarke Award. She is a lecturer in creative writing, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. www.janerogers.info

Cynthia Rogerson writes mainstream literary fiction, set in Scotland and California. She is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories. Her stories have also been broadcast on BBC radio, and translated into eight languages.

Helen Dunmore is a poet, novelist, short-story and children’s writer. Her latest novel is The Lie (2014). Her work is translated into more than thirty languages and she was the inaugural winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. www.helendunmore.com

Please note: due to circumstances outwith our control the advertised tutors on this course have changed.

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