As we approach the Winter Solstice, join us at Gairloch Museum for this Creative Writing Workshop. Annie Worsley will talk to us about her writing journey and lead us through some simple writing exercises to help craft a piece of writing on the theme of Light & Dark. Where ever you are on your writing journey just beginning, writing regularly or if you have never tried this sort of thing before youre welcome to join us for what will no doubt be an inspirational couple of hours.
Annie Worsley is author of Windswept: Life, Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands. Her next book, Fragments, will be published in 2026. Annie is a writer, crofter and grandmother. As a geographer, Annie used a range of environmental science techniques to investigate human impacts in the rainforests of New Guinea, long-term environmental change across the UK, and the nature of pollution in urban environments. Her academic writing was published in scientific journals. She began visiting Wester Ross with her husband, Rob, in the 1970s, returning with their four children over the next 35 years. In 2013 they bought two crofts in South Erradale and Annie began to write creatively on her blog: Notes from a Small Croft by the Sea. Since then, her work has been published in literary journals and collected works of creative writing and nature non-fiction. She writes a regular column with Lochaber crofter, Kirsteen Bell, for Caught by the River:Croft, Coast & Hill, Letters from the NW Highlands.