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Creative Writing Workshop with Kirstin Innes

Join award-winning writer Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen, at the Mitchell Library for an interactive workshop designed to strengthen your descriptive writing.

Creative Writing Workshop with Kirstin Innes

About Creative Writing Workshop with Kirstin Innes

This Book Week Scotland (18th- 24th November) join Glasgow Libraries for our citywide packed programme of inspiring, interesting and entertaining bookish events for people of all ages.

Join award-winning writer Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen, at the Mitchell Library for an interactive workshop designed to strengthen your descriptive writing and work on the bridges you build through your work between you and your characters, and you and your potential readers.

Kirstin Innes is the author of the novels Scabby Queen and Fishnet and the co-author of the non-fiction book Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches. She's also an award-winning journalist, has written extensively for radio and is currently working on a screenplay, a musical and her third novel, The Book of Risk.

Suitable for all levels of writing experience - beginners very welcome.

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