Let Us Begin – First Steps in Fiction – Kapka Kassabova & Elizabeth Reeder

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 26th Feb - Sun 1st Mar, 2015
1:00pm - 12:00pm

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

Over the weekend, you will have a chance to play with the key ingredients that give fiction life. With intensive tutoring from two experienced novelists, you will explore ways of harnessing real-life environments into fiction, and of using your imagination as a starting point. This course is suited to those who are starting to write fiction. The aim is to encourage you to discover your areas of creative strength.

Kapka Kassabova grew up in Bulgaria and was university-educated in New Zealand and is now settled int the Scottish Highlands. She is a poet and the author of the novel Villa Pacifica and the biographies Street Without A Name and Twelve Minutes of Love.

Elizabeth Reeder, originally from Chicago, now calls Scotland home.  Her debut novel, Ramshackle (Freight Books, 2012) was shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Best First Book Award and the Saltire First Book Award.  She teaches Creative Writing at Glasgow University.

Grants are available on this course. Click here for more info.

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