Memoir: Tim Clare & Sally Magnusson, Guest: Rupert Thomson

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 3rd Jul - Sat 8th Jul, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

What makes a good story? How do you select those parts of your life that will resonate with other people? Why is less often more? What story-telling techniques are needed to sustain interest? Sally and Tim will guide you through the myriad questions that come up when you are writing from life. Through workshops on tutorials, the tutors will help you with picking the good stories from your life and then transforming them into engaging work.

Tim Clare is an award-winning author and poet. We Can’t All Be Astronauts, a memoir about jealousy and having one last shot at achieving your dreams, won Best Biography/Memoir at the East Anglian Book Awards. His first poetry collection, Pub Stuntman, is published by Nasty Little Press. He has toured three solo shows internationally, the latest of which is Be Kind To Yourself. He has performed his work on BBC 2, C4, Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. His first novel, The Honours, is published by Canongate.
www.timclarepoet.co.uk

Sally Magnusson is an award-winning journalist and writer who has presented a wide range of programmes for the BBC and authored a number of books. Her bestselling memoir about her mother, Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, has been credited with improving knowledge and understanding of this widespread brain condition. Out of that experience she founded Playlist for Life in 2013, a charity that encourages access to personalised music on iPods for people with dementia to help them reconnect with their memories and their loved ones. Her previous books include The Flying Scotsman, Family Life, Dreaming of Iceland, Life of Pee and the Horace the Haggis series of children’s books. Her first adult novel will be published next year.

Rupert Thomson is the author of ten highly acclaimed novels, including The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of all Time, The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos, and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. In 2010, he published a memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, which won the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Rupert Thomson has contributed to the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Guardian. He lives in London

 

On this course, tutors will read a sample of your work ahead of time to get a feel for your work. Details of how and when to submit this will be sent to you in the course notes upon booking.

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