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Willie Orr

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Argyll and Bute
Languages: English
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I write historical fiction and short stories and have taught and published history and economic history to young people and adults. Apart from school teaching I have worked as a lecturer with WEA and Glasgow University Extra Mural. I can deliver creative writing classes to adults and young people.

Local authorities will visit

Argyll and Bute; Highland; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)

Events will deliver

Mentoring; Reading; Talk

Audience will work with

Adult learners; Care-experienced people; Carers; English as an additional language (EAL); Prisoners & young offenders; Vulnerable young people (under 18)

Topics of work

Biography & memoir; Care experience; Contemporary fiction; Editing & editing your own work; Historical fiction; Island communities

Age groups published for

Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100