Short Story Workshop: Karen Campbell

Short Story Workshop: Karen Campbell

Date/Time
Date(s) - Sat 3rd Sep, 2016
1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location
Spectrum Centre, Inverness, Inverness, ,


If the novel is like a panorama on life, should a short story be just a blink? Or can a snapshot capture whole worlds? You’ll be asked to bring along your favourite short story by a writer you admire, before we go on to look at where ideas come from, how you develop these, whose eyes you might tell your story through, and the techniques and perspectives you can use to give short fiction resonance and depth. Free to all Highland residents aged 14 -25. 

Karen Campbell, originally from Glasgow, but now based in Galloway, writes contemporary fiction and graduated with Distinction from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing Masters in 2003. Before turning to writing, she was a police officer, and her first four novels focus on the people behind the uniform: The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, and Proof of Life.

Karen won a Scottish Arts Council New Writers Award in 2002, Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009, and Shadowplay was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger in 2010. Her fifth novel This is Where I Am, a story about a Somali refugee living in Glasgow, was published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Circus, and was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Her new novel Rise – about Scotland in the run-up to the Independence Referendum – is out now.

A regular tutor on both adult and young people’s fiction courses, Karen teaches creative writing in a variety of establishments, and has run writing workshops and outreach for schools, prisons, hospitals and other organisations. She was recently awarded a Creative Scotland Artist’s Bursary for research into her next novel, set in Italy in WW2, which will tell the story of the role US Buffalo soldiers played in the liberation of Tuscany. More at www.karencampbell.co.uk

 


Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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