ONLINE Writing Workshops from Highland Folk Museum
Storylands Sessions
Deadline: 03 December 2025 at 16:00
Create all kinds of writing inspired by objects at the Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore in these supportive online workshops with Storylands Sessions co-host, author Merryn Glover.
Ignite your creativity with this series of word and image workshops in this exciting partnership between the Highland Folk Museum and Storylands Sessions. Join us in responding to the lesser-known stories of the Highlands, inspired by images of unique objects from the Museum’s collection.
Each month, we will gather online via ZOOM (or similar) to explore intriguing artefacts. These objects act as springboards for imaginative journeys – stories, poems, memoirs, or drama – with no limitation on genre or style and no expectation to focus on history or the Highlands. Let the objects spark your creativity and see where it takes you!
The workshops are offered to anyone aged 16+, with no writing experience necessary. Visual artists are also warmly invited to make responses to the objects in your chosen medium. Please book in the normal way and supply your own materials.
We create a relaxed, fun and welcoming space for anyone to join - and there's a tea break in the middle! There are opportunities and plenty of support to share your work, but no pressure to do so.
These ONLINE workshops take place on the Wednesday AFTER the first Tuesday of every month from the 5th of February (except July) from 7 to 9 pm. You can come to as many or as few as you like.
Click the booking link below to join us and discover more. The workshop is also held in person at the Highland Folk Museum on the first Tuesday of the month (except for January & July). A shorter version of the workshop for high school-aged young people is held on the same Tuesday at the HFM from 5-6pm.
Bring paper, pen and a playful spirit.
Most of these workshops are led by Sessions co-host and local author, Merryn Glover. Merryn's books, Of Stone and Sky and The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd are set in Badenoch, Speyside and the Cairngorms. Her first novel, A House Called Askival, is set in India, where she grew up. She has also written plays and short stories for BBC Radio and is a regular contributor to the Guardian Country Diary.
Other workshop leaders will be Karen Hodgson Pryce, Andrea Turner and Barbara Henderson.
The Highland Folk Museum, run by Highlife Highland, is mainland Britain’s first open-air museum.
Location: All Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, International
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Literature and Publishing / Cultural Tourism / Participatory Practice
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