Fiction Retreat – Susanna Jones & Romesh Gunesekera, Guest Zoe Wicomb

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 3rd Aug - Sat 8th Aug, 2015
12:00pm

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

Due to the nature of the course, accommodation is in single rooms only.

If you are writing fiction and need time to focus on it and get some help, here is your chance. A writing retreat with two novelists who will offer one to one tutorials and the opportunity to share your work with other writers on the same journey. The emphasis of the week will be on giving you time to write and have at least two individual sessions with each tutor plus evening discussions and readings. Writing should be enjoyable, this retreat will help you make it so.

Susanna Jones is the author of The Earthquake Bird, Water Lily, The Missing Person’s Guide to Love and When Nights Were Cold. She teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University of London.
www.susanna-jones.com

Romesh Gunesekera’s latest book of fiction is Noontide Toll, published in 2014 together with the 20th Anniversary edition of his Booker shortlisted novel, Reef. He is the author of eight books of fiction and the co-author of the Writers & Artists’ Companion to Novel Writing (2015).  He was also a judge for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
www.romeshg.com

Guest:

Zoe Wicomb’s award winning novels include David’s Story, The One That Got Away, and October. She taught creative writing and colonial studies at Strathclyde University. In 2013, she won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

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