Young Writers’ Café with Rafael Torrubia

Young Writers' Café with Rafael Torrubia

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday 19 Mar, 2026
4:30pm - 6:30pm

Location
WASPS Inverness Creative Academy, Inverness, , IV2 3JP


Writer Rafael Torrubia will lead the Young Writers’ Café for young people in Inverness and surrounding areas in March.

Join Rafael for a fantasy writing workshop, and find out what spells you can cast in an hour or two! This playful, experimental workshop will explore writing magical ritual in our everyday lives and in fiction, using examples from fantasy fiction, theatre and poetry.

Over the course of the workshop we will:

Create a place: from memory, dreams or imagination.

Create a person for that place: give them texture, life and a personality.

Help them perform a ritual to fix something important: Summon something, bind something, banish something, or keep something safe.

No experience necessary, gentle prompts and some little surprises will be provided. Bring yourself, your pen, and a desire to write some wild magic.

Drinks and snacks provided.

Please note, this workshop is free but but you do need to secure your place by booking below. By booking, you confirm that you are a young writer aged 14-24, and based in Scotland. For enquiries, contact youngwriters@moniackmhor.org.uk.

 

About the author

Rafael Torrubia is the author of The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver, the first novel in an epic fantasy series from Gollancz. They have won a number of awards for their writing and poetry, including Writer of the Year from the National Gallery of Scotland, the Deirdre Roberts Poetry Prize and multiple shortlistings for the Bridport Prize. Their previous prose and poetry work rests with Bloomsbury, the National Gallery of Scotland, Jupiter Artland and Sword & Kettle press. An Italian translation of The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver is forthcoming from Ne/oN Libri. Like all recovering historians, they have also worked in wine, whisky and at the National Museum of Scotland. Rafael is currently Lead Reader with the writing charity Open Book, delivering creative writing workshops across Scotland. When not writing, they can be found lost in a peaty whisky, a muddy allotment, or by a wide, dark river somewhere in Perthshire.

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