Anne Donovan

On Thursday, 23^rd of February 2006, Anne Donovan came to visit the Creative Writers' Group. We were privileged to take part in her workshop, as she is a very famous Scottish writer. The books she has written include a novel; "Buddha Da" and a collection of short stories; "Hieroglyphics".

Anne had two tasks for us. The first was that we had to pick a green card, on which was written a type of shoe. We had to describe both the shoe and the person who might wear it. We threw ourselves into this writing task. Then we  wrote about the person who would be least likely to wear or own that shoe.

Our second task was to partner with another group member, to write a dialogue between our two characters. Each pair of writers selected a pink card from Anne's pile, and were given the task of incorporating the phrase on that card into the dialogue we were writing.

We really liked having Anne for the afternoon, and hope to see her again soon.

-Beth Grant (1L1) and Sarah Gibson (1C2)

Note: Anne Donovan's  visit was partially funded by a grant from Scottish Book Trust's Live Literature Scotland programme.