Scottish Writers' Centre In Process Masterclass with Ewan Morrison - CANCELLED

We regret that this event has been cancelled. Dirty Poetry to Die For with Douglas Thompson has been programmed as a replacement.

Three is the Magic Number: There are recognisable and repeated structures within classical compositions, pop songs, poems, operas, movies and plays but we tend to shy away from thinking about the novel in such terms. Ewan Morrison explains and explores how he has used alternative story structures through his books and how he always returns to the number three as the building block of three-dimensional storytelling.

Ewan Morrison is known as a ‘provocateur’ in public speaking and journalism. Between 2011 & 2013 Morrison was a regular and controversial contributor to the Guardian, additionally giving one of two Guardian keynote speeches at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2012. His articles have been published in all of the UK’s leading newspapers and in four of the top men’s magazines, in Britain, Italy and Germany. Morrison appears often on TV and radio and was the subject of a 30-minute Stark Talk interview on BBC Radio in 2014. Also in 2014 Morrison gave a keynote speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair Story Drive and in 2016 he delivered a TEDx talk on ‘Why We Would Be Happier Without Utopia.’

Described as the ‘most fluent and intelligent Scottish writer of his generation’ by Booker Prize judge Stuart Kelly, Morrison is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and director. He has published six books of fiction and was the winner of the Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize in 2013 for his novel CLOSE YOUR EYES, and of the Glenfiddich Scottish Writer of the Year award in 2012. He is also the winner of the Not the Booker Prize in 2012, a finalist in the Saltire Society book of the Year, 2012, and a finalist in the Creative Scotland Writer of the Year Award 2012. TALES FROM THE MALL (2012) has been named one of the top 50 Scottish Books of the last 50 years, by critics and the Scottish Book Trust and gained praise from bestselling global authors.