Hidden Treasures and Inspiration - a Talk on Friday, 21st October

Last summer, the Berwick 900 Our Families family history research project set up a small creative writing group to write fictional family stories about incidents and historical characters in Berwick’s, Tweedmouth’s and Spittal’s history, using research produced by the volunteers. There's lots of scope for imagining what led up to incidents, what impact it had on people, what happened afterwards and creating a family story. One story, a poem written by Sandra Whitnell, is about a woman murdered at Middle Ord, Northumberland, in December 1876.




Some writers in Kelso Writers' Workshop got inspiration for writing historical fiction from a talk by Margaret Skea.

This year, Linda Bankier, the Berwick Archivist will give a talk at Berwick Literary Festival about the variety of records available in Berwick Record Office, and the audience will hear excerpts from three stories based on research into the Berwick Town Council account books, a newspaper cutting from November 1863 about a crinoline that caused an accident and a poster.

The talk is on Friday, 21st October at 12 noon at the Holy Trinity Parish Centre, Berwick; cost £5. 

From Inspiration to Publication

MELROSE LITERARY SOCIETY

‘The cultural heart of the Borders’

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FROM INSPIRATION TO PUBLICATION-

LOCAL AUTHORS (MARGARET SKEA, IONA CARROLL AND OLIVER EADE) DISCUSS THEIR WORK

TUESDAY 9th FEBRUARY, 7.30

ORMISTON INSTITUTE, MELROSE

NON-MEMBERS WELCOME (£3.00 ADMISSION)

Talk by Margaret Skea

A Talk by Margaret Skea

Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso

 

Tuesday 29^th September 2015

 

2.30 pm – 4.30 pm

 

All Welcome 

 

Refreshments Available