Meeting 7 November

KELSO WRITERS 

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7 NOVEMBER 2017

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

COFFEE ROOM

14.30 - 16.30

 Elspeth will talk about writing and publishing challenges particularly those faced in writing The Tweed Dales: Exploring History, Folklore and Stories from the Heart of the Scottish Borders which is due to be published shortly in Luath's Journeys and Evocations series.   In it, her co-author Donald Smith take readers on six journeys tracing the distinctive landscape, history and culture of each as shaped by and reflected in events and key personalities and illustrated by the stories, folklore and poetry these evoked.

Coffee/Tea and Biscuits

£2 

Writing Historical Short Stories Workshop at 2.30pm on Tuesday 12 September 2017

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.

Workshop 13 June

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

13 JUNE 2017

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

READING OUR OWN STORIES TO THE GROUP.

£2

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