Workshop: Writing Place with Louise Welsh

Place is more than a backdrop. Where are your fictions, memoirs and poems set? Can you feel them on your skin? What do they smell like? Can you taste them? What are the details that bring your locations alive? What do your characters’ interactions with the landscape they travel through tell us about them?

Bring as many of your five senses as you possess and join novelist Louise Welsh in an exploration of placemaking on the page. As Spike Milligan once said, ‘Everybody has to be somewhere’. This will be an enjoyable, quick-fire workshop designed to give you some strategies and techniques to take home to your desk.

This workshop is NOT included in any Festival Pass and must be booked separately

Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was awarded the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was a finalist for the McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year.

Workshop: Writing Place with Louise Welsh

3-Day & Day Festival Passes

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