The Director and Development team of The Imagining History UK Programme are proud to announce:

Along with The Young Walter Scott Prize, we are now in our fourth year of inspiring young people to explore the writing of Historical Fiction.  Together with the challenge of the Prize, IHUK is the only creative writing programme for teenage writers in the UK focusing on the research and writing of Historical Fiction. We appeal to both young fiction writers and young historians. We offer opportunities to get out into the historical environment to see, sense and feel the richness that is available to enrich creative thinking and writing.

From modest beginnings at two venues and two workshops in 2015, we have expanded to nine venues and 14 workshops nationwide in 2019.

Innovations this year include our first two workshops in London and a psycho-geographical-historical exploration of the extraordinary waterfronts of Great Yarmouth.

In Cornwall our young writers will give a live public performance of excerpts of their work at the personal invitation of Patrick Gale, Artistic Director of The North Cornwall Book Festival.

We are open for bookings from schools and Sixth Form Colleges, individual over-16s attending under their own steam and home-schooled students. For further details, and to book places: YWSPrize@outlook.com

Scottish Borders         Bowhill House, Selkirk       The House Breathes…        17 June

Edinburgh                     Trinity House of Leith         They Went to Sea…            20, 21 June

Cornwall                         Trerice              A Cornish Journey pt1                   27 June & 5 July

London                           Wallace Collection   The Time-Traveller’s Map            2, 16 July

Norwich                         Museum of Norwich    Starting With Samson…           6, 9,10 July

Woodbridge                  Sutton Hoo  On the Border of Myth and History          8 July

Aylsham                        Blickling    The People That Changed The Land            11 July

Great Yarmouth & The Elizabeth House    From Shoreline to Quayside       12 July

Cornwall                       Penhallam Manor    A Cornish Journey pt 2        2 Sept dates tbc

Special performance: The North Cornwall Book Festival                         11 October

We are, as we have been since our establishment, generously hosted by properties owned and managed by Heritage Environment Scotland, English Heritage, the National Trust, the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust, Norfolk Museums and the Wallace Collection. We are grateful to the staff, volunteers and resident experts who make our young writers feel at home as they explore these amazing places. We are deeply grateful to our ongoing collaborative and creative partnership with the Young Norfolk Arts Festival, and IlluminateUK in Edinburgh.