How do you root your fiction in history, without getting stuck
in the mud?
How do you make characters come alive across the centuries?
How do you tell a great story when you have to look everything up?
How do you make characters come alive across the centuries?
How do you tell a great story when you have to look everything up?
In this practical workshop, authors Emma Darwin and Sally O’Reilly will help you learn how to make your readers believe in the story you want to tell. Together, you will explore imagining, researching and writing historical fiction, including thinking about what twenty-first century readers of all kinds are looking for, how to approach publishers, and what’s involved if you decide to self-publish.
Join in our intensive 90 minute workshop and you should leave with plenty of new ideas, techniques and inspiration for all your future writing about the past.
To find out more and
to book, visit http://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/history-creative-thursday/
or call 01423 562303.
Harrogate History
Festival
22 – 25 October 2015
Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate
Featuring Tracy Borman, Lord Melvyn Bragg, Ken Follett,
Michael Morpurgo, Kate Mosse, Neil Oliver, HRH Princess Michael of Kent and
many more great names
The Festival will take place from 22-25 October 2015
and we’re inviting you to spend an action packed weekend in the beautiful town
of Harrogate, steeped in its own history. Join us for this fantastic
opportunity to explore and grapple with leading literary minds on some of the
most gripping conflicts, personalities and epic tales in human history.
Harrogate International Festivals invites audiences to
delve into the characters, intrigues and stories that stood the test of time to
become the stuff of history books. Hosted in association with the Historical
Writers Association, the 2015 Harrogate History Festival will feature some of
the giants of the genre, with Special Guests including Tracy Borman, Lord Melvyn Bragg, Ken
Follett, Michael Morpurgo, Kate Mosse, Neil Oliver and HRH Princess Michael of Kent as
well as a range of panel themes to really get your teeth stuck into, including ‘600
Years of Beating The French’, marking the anniversaries of victory at
Agincourt and Waterloo, ‘My Eras Better Than Yours’, with period writers
attempting to convince the Romans, Tudors, Vikings or Ancient Greeks are the
best eras for time travellers to return to in a Tardis, ‘Not Just Bullets
and Bombs’, a lively panel discussing the legacy of the Second World War,
‘Bad King, Great Charter’, exploring the truth behind the myths surrounding
the Magna Carta and our annual debut writers panel ‘New Blood’.
With so many great names, why not see them all with
a Rover
ticket starting from
only £56 and Weekend Break Packages (which
include all tickets plus accommodation and lunches at The Old Swan Hotel and an
exclusive Festival goody bag) start from only £359. Individual event tickets start from just £7.
See our website for more details.
For the full programme of inspirational writers, visit www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/history
For the full programme of inspirational writers, visit www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/history
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