Explore Creative Writing with Jenni Fagan and essa may ranapiri

Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 11th Sep, 2024
2:00pm

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

Are you care experienced and aged 14-30?

Join Scottish author Jenni Fagan and Aotearoa (New Zealand) poet essa may ranapiri for a workshop exploring different forms of creative writing.

Jenni and essa will guide you through a series of exercises on poetry, micro-fiction, and writing from life.  This will be followed by an open conversation on writing, where you can ask Jenni and essa about their writing life and experiences, such as how they filter real life, where they find inspiration for their work – and any other questions you might have.

This workshop is free to attend for care-experienced people aged 14-30. Booking is required, below.

Snacks and drinks will be provided during the break.

If you have any queries please email us on vicky@moniackmhor.org.uk or edel@moniackmhor.org.uk.

Tutors

essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa ki te Tonga, Te Arawa, Ngaati Puukeko, Clan Gunn) has two collections of poetry ransack (2019) and ECHIDNA (2022) both published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. In 2023 ranapiri was the recipient of the Janet Frame Poetry Award and the inaugural Keri Hulme Award. They are co-editor of the literary journal Kupu Toi Takataapui with Michelle Rahurahu.

Photo credit: Kelly Joseph (Ngaati Maniapoto)

 

 

Jenni Fagan is poet, novelist and screenwriter, who has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists after the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon (2012), which was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims (2016), her second novel, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award, and saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. In 2022, Polygon published her most recent novel, Hex, and The Bone Library, a new poetry collection written during her time as a Writer in Residence at the Dick Vet Bone Library.

Photo credit: Mihaela Bodlovic

essa may ranapiri and Jenni Fagan are taking part in Island to Island, a writers exchange residency between Verb Wellington, Moniack Mhor, and Edinburgh International Book Festival, The Island to Island project is supported by British Council New Zealand and Pacific. 

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