Category Archives: workshop 2018

A visit to Haddon Hall

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It was the morning after the Riddles of the Night* workshop that I have shared again here over the past week or so. We always feel the need to ‘come down’ after these weekends and wandered out into the landscape. … Continue reading →

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Romance and research… a writer’s gift to a reader

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Once upon a time…and all the very best stories start that way… there was a little girl who read her way through every book in her mother’s library. It wasn’t a proper library, with mahogany shelves and great leather chairs… … Continue reading →

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The Stone and the Pilgrim (1) – Steve Tanham

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Sun in Gemini Late Friday afternoon, 14th September. A group of travellers arrive in Bamburgh, Northumberland. Their intention is to invoke a landscape. The meeting place is one of the hotels in the village of Bamburgh, but the first destination … Continue reading →

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Our next event…

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Castles of the Mind Seahouses, Northumberland Friday 14th – Sunday 16th September 2018 Do we have ‘castles of the mind’? Traditionally, ancient castles were build where there was trouble… Do we have the equivalent in our minds and emotions? Have … Continue reading →

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Looking in the Looking Glass

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

As I schedule a post or two in advance to cover my absence for the Silent Eye’s workshop weekend, there are few things I can predict with any certainty. You never know what is going to happen or how things … Continue reading →

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The Magical Roundabout – Steve Tanham

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

I remember the moment, a few years ago, when Stuart – one of my co-directors of the Silent Eye – said to me: “And that’s it, vanished in an instant: all that work about to be packed up, filed away … Continue reading →

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Residential Writing Course with Mary Smith

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Some of the participants at one of the Durhamhill Creative Writing Courses From March 13 to 15 I, along with historical novelist Margaret Elphinstone, am teaching on a residential creative writing course at Durhamhill, in a converted coaching house in … Continue reading →

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part 2) – Steve Tanham

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Sue Vincent

(Continued from Part One of The Deadly Edge of Love) It’s the morning of 18th November, 1558. Robert Dudley is witnessing a miracle.In her dying months, Queen Mary, Elizabeth’s half-sister, and daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon, has restored … Continue reading →

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part 1) – The Silent Eye

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

They were both young, though he was a year older; beyond childhood but not yet adults, not in the way that their lives would soon force them to be… They had been together since their early years, and what they … Continue reading →

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An Arthur for Elizabeth? – The Silent Eye

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Philip Sidney was born, in 1554, into prosperity and with connections. He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley – making him a relative of the 1st Duke of Northumberland and the 1st Earl of … Continue reading →

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