The write stuff at Herefordshire’s libraries

Herefordshire Council is giving budding local authors the opportunity to learn from the best in a series of free workshops. There will be six free writing workshops - one covering poetry and five fiction - with well-known authors, organised as part of the National Year of Reading.

The writers include bestsellers Catrin Collier who will be visiting The Burgage Hall Ledbury, and Sam Llewellyn who will be at Ross Library.

Award-winning Manda Scott, one of the few UK writers to have ever been short-listed for the Orange Prize will be at the Bromyard Centre, and crime writer Margaret Murphy will be at Hereford Library. Shoo Rayner's workshop is set for Leominster Library.

And poets are served by Sara-Jane Arbury, the former writer-in-residence for Herefordshire Libraries who will be at Fairfield High School.

All workshops run from 10am to 4pm and include lunch. Delegates will need to bring an example of their writing to the workshop (1 poem, or approximately 300 words).

The workshops are free but will get booked up fast. Places are limited and pre-booking is essential. To find out more, contact your local library, or check out the Herefordshire Council libraries website: http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/1566.asp