Scotland's Stories: Hope – Writing workshops

As part of this year's Scotland’s Stories: Hope writing project, we’ve teamed up with three incredibly talented authors to help inspire you to write about your own hopes and dreams.

Each author will be delivering a tailored writing workshop, sharing some fun, practical exercises you can use to get started with your own story.

So, if you're struggling for inspiration and fancy picking the brain of one of these wonderful authors, sign up for a workshop now!

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Workshop dates

• Workshop with Susi Briggs, Saturday 18 May, 1–3pm(this link will open in a new window)
• Workshop with Ever Dundas, Saturday 25 May, 11am–1pm(this link will open in a new window)
• Workshop with Alycia Pirmohamed, Tuesday 4 June, 1–3pm(this link will open in a new window)

Meet our authors

• Susi Briggs(this link will open in a new window) is a poet, author, storyteller, musician and podcaster with a passion for the Scots language. Susi’s work with Oor Wee Podcast and the Nip Nebs series of books were all shortlisted for Scots Language Awards. In 2023, Susi was appointed Galloway Scots Scriever where she took up a year-long residency with National Library Scotland. She is the founder of Music Matters, which provides interactive and intergenerational music sessions for people in care homes.
• Ever Dundas is an award-winning writer whose work includes literary fiction, horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Her first novel Goblin won the Saltire First Book Award 2017. Her second novel, critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller HellSans, is shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Award's Fiction Book of the Year 2023.
• Alycia Pirmohamed(this link will open in a new window) is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water. In 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her non-fiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with Canongate. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and she currently teaches in the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.

Interested in digital storytelling? This year, we're also running a series of free, online storytelling workshops to help you create your own 2–5 minute digital story about hope. Find out more and register your interest on the Moments of Hope: Digital storytelling workshop page.