Marianne Wheelaghan's crime thriller
Food of Ghosts is a Blackwell's BESTSELLER.

Marianne Wheelaghan's new book Food of Ghosts is being launched on the 8th November, 2012 at Blackwell’s Book Shop, Edinburgh.

On Saturday afternoon, 20th of October, Marianne is delighted to be going to Corstorphine Library to talk about the writing of The Blue Suitcase. Corstorphine Library 12 Kirk Loan, EH12 7HD 0131 529 5506 contact: Stephen Shiels

Marianne will be part of Wester Hailes Library’s Crystal Jubilee celebrations, marking fifteen years of being open! She will be talking about the inspiration behind the writing of The Blue Suitcase, and chatting a little bit about my debut crime novel Food of Ghosts. When: Wednesday, the 17th October, 2012 from 6.30 to 7.30 Where: Wester Hailes Library, 1 West Side Plaza, EH14 2ST, Edinburgh For more details contact Dinae Yule at Wester Hailes Library on Diane.Yule@edinburgh.gov.uk

Marianne is looking forward to talking about the inspiration behind the writing of The Blue Suitcase, and chatting a little bit about Food of Ghosts at Stockbridge Library*, Edinburgh on the 3rd October, 2012 at 7-8pm.

Monday, 10th September, Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012. Writingclasses Director Marianne Wheelaghan is looking forward to discussing The Blue Suitcase with the book groups at Doune Library, Stirling at 7.30 pm, as part of the wonderful Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012

St Andrew’s and St George’s West at Festival Time (Aug 2012) On the 17th Marianne Wheelaghan will be talking about The Blue Suitcase at the Shandwick Place Building (between 2 pm – 3.30pm). There will be refreshments! Be lovely to see you there.

Monday, 17th September, Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012. Writingclasses Director Marianne Wheelaghan is looking forward to discussing The Blue Suitcase with the book groups at Doune Library, Stirling at 7.30 pm, as part of the wonderful Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012

New courses, Novel Writing 2 and Poetry I, are starting this September. Details are now on our web site.

New Short Story Competition. Deadline for entry is October 30th 2012.

Our tutor Natalie Scot will be reading at Middlesbrough Literary Festival 2012 on Tuesday 19th of June at the Central Library 6.30 - 7pm.

Marianne will be talking about being a writer from Leith to the Leith Rotary Club on the 19th April at 7pm.

Marianne will be speaking about The Blue Suitcase, her remarkable debut novel, at Crawley's Festival of Words - WORDfest - on Saturday 31st of March.

BERTH, written by our writingclasses tutor Natalie Scott, has its PREMIER on the 13th and 14th of April 2012. BERTH is a collection of dramatic stories commemorating the centenary of Titanic. Well done Natalie!

2012 marks ten years of writingclasses.co.uk creative writing courses.

(18/12/11) The Blue Suitcase is ranked in Top Six under "Family relationships" on the Amazon UK Kindle site.

The Blue Suitcase is a staff recommended Christmas Read in Waterstones West End store in Edinburgh.

Writingclasses student wins the 2011 Hay-on-Wye Short Story writing competition!

The story corner

Please enjoy our selection of Short Stories written by our Creative Writing Course participants. Please click on the title of the story to view it. (Last updated April 2013)

Our most recent stories are highlighted

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Story Title
Amani AlShaal
Gaile Austin
The Cottage in the Woods
Sue Bagley
Degrees of Separation – Part two
Oliver Bailey
Pete Barclay-George
Tracy Bentley
Julie Bergman
Savita Bernal
Jon Billings
Corrie Butcher
Sue Butler
Gill Campbell
Mary Campbell
An Accident Waiting to Happen
Katy Carter
Gina Caroni
Glenn Carver
Andrea Christodoulou
Dorothy Christie
David Clay
Wendy Clarke
Andy Cliff
Anna Codina
Tim Connolly
Jane Coster
Jim Curry
Witch Way
Jo Daly
Fiona Dixon
Helen Donohoe
Tim Duhan
Louise Dykes
Nelly El-Menshawy
Michelle Eshkeri
Frederique Feder
Iona Ferguson
Sam Fleming
Geraldine Fraser
Jennifer Fuller
Caught in a Moment
Evelyn Galbraith
Ian Galloway
Chris Garland
Julie Gassman
Shirley Gill
Kathryn Glynn
The Little Pig Who Wanted To Fly
Tatiana Maria Goded
Dominique Gorman
Sleeping Beauty (The True Story)
Dena Grabinar
Catherine Greensit
Robert Gregson
Lisa Green
Catherine Greensit
Magdalena Grysinska
Patrick Hahessy
Alan Haldane
Gillian Hastons
Cathy Harris
Katrina Hart
Two Paths One Road To Weeping Rose
Neil Hatt
Vanessa Holt
Lisa Holyhead
Michelle Hubbard
Streisand’s in the Waiting Room
Kate Hurst
Sanaa Jabeen
Roopam Janda
Steve Johnson
Emily Jones
Elizabeth Kelland
Melanie Kerr
Dan King
Audrey Kynaston
Steve Lambert
Lucy Latimer
Isobelle Lauder
Leigh-Ann Lebby
Blue
Simon Leak
Andy Lewis
Marie Lewis
Chris Long
Gillian MacLaurin
Yvonne MacMillan
Sophie Mackenzie
My first time meeting you
Hazel Martin
Stephen Manick
Daniel Matthews
Liz Maudsley
Stephanie McCourt
Anne McGuigan
Kate McIntosh
Agnes McMillan
Jacqui Mehring
Helen Menhinick
Sarah Merrill
Clara Mertens
Kerry Moore
Ian Myers
Robert Newcombe
Jeannine Nielsen
Julie Noble
Julie Noble
Lucy Norman
Kendra Olson
Ken Osbourne
Mo Ostler
Julie Perry
Sara Porter
Kathryn Perkins
Sam Portlock
Anne Prince
Chapter 1 of novel
Siobhan Purcell
Sandra Reed
Neill Rees
Caroline Reid
First Impressions
Lorna Reina
Jacqueline Reiter
Elisabeth Ribeiro
Emma Louise Richards
Victoria Richman
Kaileigh Richter
Lucy Robb
David Roberts
Amanda Robson
Claudia Rodriguez
My first time…
Fran Roots
Thomas Roth
Nathalie Sadhwani
Elke Salazar
Lisa Salje
Tim Sinclair
Alice Smith
Craig Smith
Nadia Smith
William Smith
Steven Stones
Jonny Sweeney
Melissa Taylor
Petrina Tedeschi
Jean Thewlis
Vicky Todd
Lisa Travelli
Jennifer Turner
Isobel Ulrich
Neeta Vipin
Eden Voller
Eithne Walsh
Katrina Wareham
Katie Waistell
Julie Waters
Jennifer Watson
Rachel Weller
Glynis Wharton
rachel white
Debbie Wright
Alexandria Zafirova
Kim Zanes
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