Non-Fiction – Robert Twigger & Jason Webster, Guest Todd McEwen

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 10th Aug - Sat 15th Aug, 2015
12:00pm

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

Whatever your subject, the same principles of writing non fiction apply. Let these experienced tutors guide you through the overwhelming process of selecting what information to use and what to omit, shaping your structure, and teasing out the aspects that will engage reader interest. This is a course for serious writers at any level – beginners and fifth drafters alike.

Robert Twigger, the author of Angry White Pyjamas and Big Snake, was born in 1964 and educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize. In 1991 he went to Japan, studied traditional martial arts, and completed the course for the Tokyo riot police. He has walked 700 km across the Sahara to the oracle at Siwa, been looking for bona fide zombies in Haiti, and reported for the Daily Telegraph on chain gangs in Arizona.
www.roberttwigger.com 

Jason Webster is the author of the Max Cámara series of books well as historical, non-fiction and travel writing. Born in San Francisco and educated at Oxford, he then moved to Spain, the subject of Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco. His travel writing has been published in Conde Nast Traveller and many British broadsheets. Non-fiction works include Andalus: Unlocking the secrets of Moorish Spain, Guerra: Living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War and Sacred Sierra: A year on a Spanish mountain.
www.jasonwebster.net

Guest:

Todd McEwen was born in California and has lived in Scotland since 1980. His non-fiction work includes literary reviews and articles for quality broadsheets. His novels include McX: A Romance of the Dour and Who Sleeps with Katz. His latest book is The Five Simple Machines. He lives in Edinburgh.

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