Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 14th Nov, 2024
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
WASPS Inverness Creative Academy, Inverness, , IV2 3JP
Writer L.D. Lapinski will lead the Young Writers’ Café for young people in Inverness and surrounding areas in November.
Join LD Lapinski for an introduction to world-building in fantasy fiction; creating maps and learning how the wider world influences character development.
No need for experience, just bring along a playful mind and pen and paper! 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
L. D. Lapinski is the best-selling author of the ARTEZANS trilogy, JAMIE, the Stepfather Christmas duology, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, including Adventure in the Floating Mountains, which was a 2023 World Book Day title. JAMIE was nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing, and selected as part of the Empathy Lab UK ‘Read For Empathy’ 2024 collection. DOCTOR WHO: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival, L. D’s first book for the BBC IP Doctor Who, will be published in November 2024. L. D’s first book for adults, SOME BODY LIKE ME, will be published in April 2025. Together, L. D.’s books are published around the world in sixteen languages. Each book in the Strangeworlds trilogy, and the standalone novel JAMIE have been awarded a Kirkus star – one of the most coveted designations in the book industry, marking books of exceptional merit.