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Speculative fiction workshop with Sandy Bennett-Haber

  • beginning at Bridgend Farmhouse 41 Old Dalkeith Road Edinburgh, Scotland, EH16 4TE United Kingdom (map)
a number of people in winter clothing writing on papers on clip boards in a forest setting

Good science fiction can simultaneously take us into a new world and help us see our own world more clearly. How might the trees in Craigmillar Castle Park lead us towards a better future? Guided by Sandy Bennett-Haber. No experience with fiction or other genre writing necessary.

Sandy Bennett-Haber is an Edinburgh based Australian. She received a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Monash University (Melbourne) and blogged her way around the world before making her home in Scotland.Her writing has been published in Dear Damsels, Coin Operated Press - Earth Zine, Waymaking: an Anthology of Women's Adventure Writing, Poetry and Art, For the Love of Trees, and in the upcoming anthology North Bridge: Where We Traveled. Sandy is currently writing a speculative fiction novel, and is a founder member of the Women Writers Network. Previously selected for the Creative Scotland Our Voices program and long-listed for the Primadonna Prize, Sandy fits writing in around motherhood, clothes mending and wild swimming.

Everyone is welcome. No prior experience necessary.

A collaboration between Art Walk Projects, Bridgend Farmhouse and Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust

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