Scottish Writers' Centre Writing Historical Fiction with Catherine Hokin

This talk centres on defining the genre of Historical Fiction and where writer Catherine Hokin fits within that genre.

Hokin will discuss her writing process and why it pays to have an angle, and why she chose to write about rediscovering lost female voices. She will also address the pluses and minuses of using real people, finding the story beneath the facts, getting the period detail right while finding the balance between fact and storytelling, the value of storyboarding, and taking your audience with you.

Catherine Hokin began writing in 2014, and published a short story, Now You See Me, the same year. Her debut novel Blood and Roses was published in January 2016, and is based on the story of Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses.