This is an opportunity for you to start writing a historical short story - a short story based on a historical incident or somebody in history.
I'll talk a bit about why to write historical short stories, whether to research, where to go for historical sources.
I'll read one of my short stories and talk about the difficulties I encountered.
More importantly, I'll provide examples of newspaper articles, excerpts of reports, a picture, a map, adverts, a letter, accounts, a census page, a 19th century poem and a prison diet to give you inspiration to write your own story.
Here's an example of a bit of a newspaper article:
There's lots of scope for imagining what led up to incidents, what
impact it had on people, what happened afterwards and creating a story.
There'll be time for you to begin writing a short story and an opportunity for a few brave souls to summarise the example they chose and what they've done so far.
This is an event in the Borders Heritage Festival 2017 and you can download the Borders Heritage Festival programme.
As usual, there's a charge of £2 and there'll be tea and coffee and biscuits about halfway-through. The workshop begins at 2.30pm and ends about 4.30pm on Tuesday 12 September 2017.
We're a group of writers in various genres and of varying experience who meet together in Kelso to help people to improve their writing skills and to help people begin writing fiction and to reduce social isolation. The low cost workshops have a focus primarily on talks, 'open mic' sessions and short stories. If you haven’t attended one of our workshops before, it’s free of charge. You're welcome to come and just listen. We are a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation no SC049640.