“I enter the tomb on something like a wide skateboard, using the rope strung from the roof of the narrow, three metre-long passageway….”
First instalment of my exploration of a place that has haunted me for 18 years—the Tomb of the Eagles. Become a paid subscriber to my blog–now hosted on Ghost.io— to read this and other exclusive posts as well as join our online Outlier Hour of writing and conversation—THIS SATURDAY! https://allysonshaw.ghost.io/inside-the-hollow-hill/
In this two hour master class we will centre on facets of place writing informed by anti-colonial re-enchantment of land, place, and home.
28th of April, 2024. 7pm GMT £25, tickets via Eventbrite
I’ll share practical tips for forming or renewing a sense of place in your writing. Together we’ll examine our places, sharing discoveries and challenges as a group, exploring forces shaping our place-writing from gentrification to the Scottish Diaspora, and more. There will be prompts and inspiration for future work.
I bring decades of experience teaching writing to my online workshops. I’ve taught at the University of California and Colleges in the US, delivered community writing workshops as well as master classes for the Taibhsear Collective.
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Allyson Shaw, Author of Ashes and Stones 