Meetings

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT MEETING 

21 NOVEMBER 2017

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

IN THE COFFEE ROOM DOWNSTAIRS

£2

THIS MEETING WILL BE A READING SESSION FROM THE EXERCISES GIVEN AT THE LAST TWO WORKSHOPS. 

CHRISTMAS STORIES FROM OLIVER EADE'S WORKSHOP

  AND READINGS FROM THE EXERCISES GIVEN BY ELSPETH TURNER AS A CO AUTHOR WITH DONALD SMITH: The Tweed Dales: Exploring History, Folklore and Stories from the Heart of the Scottish Borders

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LAST MEETING BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS BREAK WILL BE HELD ON 5TH DECEMBER.

THIS WILL BE A PARTY AND A LITERARY QUIZ 

FREE EVENT 

PLEASE BRING SOMETHING TO SHARE FOR NIBBLES AND/OR TO DRINK

SAME VENUE AS USUAL

Meeting 7 November

KELSO WRITERS 

NEXT MEETING

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.