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Creative Writing

Harness your inner wordsmith and enjoy a fun and supportive writing session with a professional writer and poet, using the interiors and art collections of the Fife Arms as your inspiration.

  • 2 hours
  • From £270
  • bookable for residents only
A scottish poetry book, notebook and pencil on a table at the fife arms

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Bookmark in the living mountain, a book by Scottish poet Nan Shepherd
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Creative writing guide, Scottish author and poet Gillian Shearer.

What To Expect

All levels of writers are welcome, from complete amateurs to the more experienced. Aberdeenshire-based author and poet Gillian Shearer leads these experiences. Previous works of hers includes the Fife Arms commemorative poem for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which she worked with the Braemar community to create.

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