A wonderful opportunity to get in-depth one-to-one feedback on your fiction writing, with acclaimed novelist and Arvon tutor Kerry Young. The 1-1 includes two hours of an Arvon tutor’s time: • One hour for your tutor to read 2000 words of your fiction work-in-progress • One hour on one-to-one feedback in this writing via Skype • A follow-up email with [read more…]
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Online Course: Coming From Where I’m From – A Poetry Course Exploring Place With Rachel Long
In this course, master the essentials of creating a strong sense of place, then delve into the potential of returning to sites of personal significance to mine for story and image. Create new direction and possibilities for your poems through exploratory excavations of location and memory. Learn how to paint vivid landscapes and immerse your reader, unforgettably, in time and [read more…]
Online course: Writing a Life with Miranda Doyle
Give life shape. What we have in front of us is a set with too many characters, more scene changes than feels possible to narrate, yet a tale that needs to be told. Using collected life stories like The Good Immigrant and Common People, we will, through writing prompts, assignments and feedback, find for you solutions. We all have a [read more…]
Online Course: Brief Encounters with Ella Frears
We’ll explore narrative, image, form, metaphor and voice and look at how we contain and control these within the most compact forms. Looking at writers who are brilliantly brief we’ll work and rework our texts, creating strange, beguiling gems that are strong, charged, brave and perfectly formed. Bring on the small packages! What will you do on the course? We’ll [read more…]
Online Course: Writing Compelling Memoir with Lily Dunn
How do we write our own personal narrative so that it resonates powerfully with others? This course is designed for beginners and more experienced writers who are interested in finding ways to elevate the purely confessional to publishable standard.
Online Course: Writing YA for Beginners with Helen Donohoe
Find your voice in Young Adult fiction. Explore the essentials of compelling storytelling in the YA genre. If you are a writer at any stage of your writing and are keen to explore or start exploring the distinctive features and opportunities within Young Adult fiction, this course is for you!