Fiction: Kevin MacNeil & Tiffany Murray, Guest: Patrick Gale

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 10th Jul - Sat 15th Jul, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

This course will cover a range of topics, from the spark of an idea to writing an irresistible opening line; from discovering your characters to shaping a plot; from that messy first draft to becoming your own most helpful critic; and the development of good writing habits to take home. You will examine your own writing in a creative and adventurous community. Whether you are writing fiction, poetry or scripts these workshops will help you with your narrative, form and the tools you need to discover these. Kevin and Tiffany will share their personal approaches to writing.

Kevin MacNeil is an award-winning writer originally from the Outer Hebrides, Lecturer in Creative Writing in the University of Stirling. He is a novelist, screenwriter, lyricist, playwright, poet and writing mentor. His latest novel is The Brilliant & Forever (‘It is a joy to read such an engaging, luminous novel’ — The Guardian).

Tiffany Murray’s novels Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and the Guardian selected Diamond Star Halo in their pick of the year fiction. She has been a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her latest novel is Sugar Hall.
www.tiffanymurray.com

Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight in 1962 and read English at New College Oxford. He lives on his husband’s farm near Land’s End and is a keen gardener and cellist. He has written fifteen novels, including the bestselling Rough Music and Notes from an Exhibition. His fourteenth novel, A Perfectly Good Man, won a Green Carnation award and was a favourite recommendation among Guardian readers in the paper’s end of year round-up. His latest novel, A Place Called Winter is a Radio 2 Book Club selection. He is currently writing an original, gay-themed, part-historical drama for BBC1 called Man in an Orange Shirt and adapting Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence for BBC2

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