Starting Out In Fiction – M.J. Hyland & Zoe Strachan, Guest: Tessa Hadley

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 15th Aug - Sat 20th Aug, 2016
5:00pm - 10:00am

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

Create Vivid and Compelling Fiction

We learn the craft of fiction through years of work, and the path can be long and lonely. This course is designed to hasten your ‘apprenticeship’ by giving you invaluable insights in a supportive, practice-based workshop environment. In the company of professional, award-winning authors you will learn the skills and techniques needed
to create compelling and credible characters, as well as how to make the fictional worlds they inhabit vivid and memorable.

M.J.Hyland is an ex-lawyer, a lecturer at the University of Manchester, and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize) & This is How. She is also the author of dozens of essays and short stories and works for The Guardian Masterclass Program, BBC Radio and in 2013 was appointed to the Academy for the £40,000 Folio Fiction Prize.
www.mjhyland.com

Zoë Strachan is an award-winning novelist and librettist who also writes stories, plays and criticism. Her most recent book, Ever Fallen in Love, was shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award and the Green Carnation Prize. Her opera The Lady from the Sea, composed by Craig Armstrong, premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival and won a Herald Angel Award. She co-edited New Writing Scotland for three years and in 2014 curated Out There, the first anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland in over 20 years. She teaches at the University of Glasgow.
www.zoestrachan.com

Tessa Hadley has written six novels, including the recent bestseller The Lie, and The London Train. She has also written two collections of short stories. Her work appears in the New Yorker regularly, as well as other publications. She is a Guardian reviewer.

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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