LETTING GO is a programme of creative writing activities for older people, developed and delivered by Autumn Voices, and supported by the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Organisations.
Activities are facilitated by four Online Writers-in-Residence (OWRs). Each OWR presents four online sessions – a reading, and three writing workshops – and writes for the Autumn Voices website.
Our first OWR is the Highland-based author Moira Forsyth. Moira worked for many years with Sandstone Press, and as part of her work there wrote a series of blog posts called
The Red Pen
how to edit your own work – or what to do after you’ve written THE END.
Sandstone Press no longer exists as an independent publishers, and the posts have gone from the website, but Moira has allowed us to republish them on the Autumn Voices website.
There are nine of them, and we’ll publish them weekly over the course of autumn 2025. We hope you find them useful!
Moira writes, ’although originally developed for novelists and, to a lesser extent, writers of full length narrative non-fiction, much of the guidance is also relevant for writers of short stories and short non-fiction pieces. Remember – it is guidance only and not a list of rules!’