Literary festival write on the mark

Photo: Anthony Miller and Tim Bradley

Carol Ann Lee (centre front) with some of her inspired visitors Jacqueline Denny, Laura Tyreman, Austin Stigwood and Enid Mullen

BUDDING authors got some top tips from riveting writers as part of Oldham’s Literary weekend.

The event included a creative-writing workshop by award-winning writer and director Cheryl Martin and a poetry workshop at Gallery Oldham, run by Michelle Green, on the theme of the symbolic language of flowers.

Author Carol Ann Lee, who penned “One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley and Witness” — a memoir of David Smith who reported Hindley and Ian Brady to the police — fascinated locals at Lees library as she delved into the murky past of the murderer with a discussion on Friday.

And what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than with a cream tea and the author of 13 best-selling novels?

Guests at Oldham Library did just that with Sunday Times’ top ten bestseller Erica James who discussed her latest novel, “Promises, Promises”.