If you have written poetry that you would like to perform and are eager to vocalise your voice then join experienced spoken word artist Chris Brooks at this Masterclass. During the day techniques that will help you to take your words from the page to the stage will be explored as will means for making your words and poetry assessable, [read more…]
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Folklore Storytelling For Performance
The European folklore and fairytale traditions are rooted in the dark witch infested forests of the Grimms, influenced by the chaotically bawdy worlds of the Italians Basille and Straparola and coalesced in the paradoxicall subversive and subservient environment of the seventeenth century French salons. It is nothing less than a labyrinth of the magical, profoundly frightening and surreal. A slightly [read more…]
Writing Your Way to Becoming a Published Author
Our 8 part short story writing course, ‘Writing your way to becoming a published author’ will guide you through the stages of developing and writing your short story with the aim to publishing your story and becoming a published author. Over the 8 weeks our tutor and published author, Graham Sclater will help you to develop your story by exploring [read more…]
Monthly Story Workshop
We will generate story ideas, explore characters and story worlds, sharpen dialogue and look at elements of story structure. You will learn through a range of writing exercises and prompts, writing together, sharing what you write (if you want to) and listening to each other. There will be no feedback on what you choose to share. Beginners are welcome. Whether [read more…]
Writing Short Fiction, with Catherine Smith
Do you enjoy reading short stories …and would you like to write them? In this six-week course, we’ll explore how a short story – ‘The art of the glimpse’ – can begin with a dream, a memory, a single image, a fragment of overheard conversation….and we’ll look at how to structure, plot and edit them so that they’re small but [read more…]
Creating Great Writing Workshops and Courses with Evlynn Sharp
A confidence-building, experiential workshop to empower writers who want to develop and run short courses in creative writing. Explore step-by-step guidelines to build content, structure workshops, avoid pitfalls; key principles like timing and making a safe space where participants share their writing; the need for feedback; the importance of self-assessment. A limited number of bursary places are available for this [read more…]
Crossing the Finish Line: How to Complete Your Novel, with William Shaw
A practical, intensive short course designed to give momentum to those who have already come some way into writing a long fiction project. Alongside advice on structure, story, character, dialogue and location, we’ll explore ways in which we can re-energise and refine your writing process to help you to finally carry the ball over the line. Towards the end of [read more…]
The Shape of a Novel: A Masterclass with Jacob Ross
Award-winning author, Jacob Ross is widely regarded as one of the UK’s most exceptional creative-writing teachers and we are delighted to welcome him to New Writing South for an exclusive masterclass on novel-writing. Even the most experienced writers can sometimes stumble when approaching longform fiction, especially when it comes to structuring a novel, so the heart of the story powerfully [read more…]
Delving into the Dark Side – What Crime Writers Need to Know About Research, with Sue Walker
This half-day workshop is for emerging writers of crime fiction. You may want to start that crime novel or already be writing one. The session will focus on the benefits that effective research can bring to your writing. Why is research important? What do I need to know? Why do I need to know it? How do I go about [read more…]
Writers: Facing an Audience with Tanushka Marah
The natural habitat of many writers is a solitary one, locked away in a room honing craft, and when they are asked to share their work (as most inevitably are) in front of a live audience at a workshop, book launch, festival or open mic event the first instinct is to recoil in horror. So how do writers effectively and [read more…]