Workshop - Landscape and Place: A Creative Reading and Writing workshop with Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing. She has won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year
award, the New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She has taught creative writing at Oxford
University and is currently a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Literary Fund, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is the author of six novels and several short fiction collections. In 2024, Gunn published her third short fiction collection, Pretty Ugly, which was a finalist for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

The theme of the workshop will be ‘Landscape and Place' drawing on Kirsty's novels and short stories – in particular The Big Music, Featherstone and Kirsty's new collection of short stories, Pretty Ugly.

An immersive, dream like workshop that will have you thinking again about where you live and how to make the kind of writing that rises out of the places that are all around us.

Bring pens, paper and be prepared to be inspired!