Short Story Writing Workshop with Ann Mackinnon

If you would like to try your hand at writing a short story we have the perfect starter course. In this workshop poet Ann Mackinnon will give you an introduction to the process of writing a short story. You will look at a very short story and pick out the things that make it a good short story e.g. characterisation, viewpoint, setting etc. There will then be some exercises to develop characters and set up a plotline for your own short story.

Ann writes poetry in both Scots and English and is widely published in anthologies and magazines. In 2014 a New Scottish Writers’ Award for writing in Scots, enabled her to complete a pamphlet called ‘Nae Flooers’, published by Tapsalteerie which was shortlisted for the Calum MacDonald Prize.

She has been placed in the McCash Poetry Competition several times. The anthology Modren Makars Yin was published by Tapsalteerie in 2022. All three writers featured in it write in Scots. In 2022 she was nominated for Scots Language Writer of the Year in the Scots Language Awards. Her latest pamphlet, ‘Warp and Weft’, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2023. Recently she has judged the Scots Poetry Prize at Wigtown.

This event is supported by Book Week Scotland 2024 event funding.