Book Week Scotland: Creative Writing Workshop with Rob McInroy

Developing your writing skills? Looking for inspiration? Your local history and environment can help take your writing to the next level.

Join historical novelist Rob McInroy for a workshop to explore using memories and artefacts to stimulate your writing. Examine how you can use your memories and local materials such as photographs, newspapers or memorabilia to stimulate fresh ideas and unlock your unconscious. No previous writing experience is necessary.

Rob McInroy is a crime and thriller writer, and has written 4 novels and a short story collection set in Crieff and Perthshire. A sense of time and place essential to his work. His short stories have won and been placed in many national and international competitions. In 2018 he was a winner of the Bradford Literature Festival Northern Noir Crime Novel competition with Cuddies Strip and in 2019, he won the Darling Axe Novel First Page Prize with another novel, Cloudland.

He comes from a rural, working class background in Crieff, Perthshire and his writing is all set in the Perthshire area, ranging from the 1920s to the 1980.

Approx. run time 7pm-9pm

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