Introduction to Creative Writing
Online Dates TBC
One morning a week for ten weeks.
Do you have an idea for a story but haven’t yet captured it on the page? Or maybe you have a writing project in progress that has stalled?
This ten-week course is aimed at fuelling your imagination while developing your skills in the writing craft. It is for writers of fiction (novels and short stories) and creative non-fiction (life writing or a hybrid of forms – memoir and travel for example). Or perhaps you don’t yet know what form is for you and your stories.
Overview
Over the ten weeks we will explore the key elements of storytelling, including: structure, character, showing and telling, setting, language and voice, point of view and editing. There will be weekly practical writing exercises alongside exploring published work to probe techniques and style.
The course is delivered through weekly online seminars which run for 2.5 hours. Your tutors are novelist Rosie Chard, and short story and creative non-fiction writer, Jacq Molloy. Rosie and Jacq are both highly experienced writing tutors and published writers, passionate about writers developing their unique voices. They will work together to deliver the course so you will have the benefit of insight from two writers.
Whether you are local to Brighton or living on the other side of the world this online course will enable you to develop and share your stories within an encouraging and supportive writing community.
What this creative writing course will do for you
By the end of this course – which is suitable for beginning writers or those with experience – you will have deepened your knowledge of the writing craft and stirred your imagination into action.
At the end of the course, you can continue onto the two-year Creative Writing Programme or Life Writing Programme with a solid understanding of creative writing and know how what to expect from the longer programme.
What is required of me?
No formal qualifications are required – just an interest in finding out more about the craft of creative writing.
Key Information
Programme Length: Ten Weeks
Maximum group size 15
Dates and times:
TBC
Venue:
The course is run online using Zoom. When you pay your fee, you will be sent log-in details to our online learning platform which includes the full course structure and a forum where you can communicate with your fellow writers.
Programme tutors:
Cathy Hayward (programme director), Rosie Chard and Jacq Molloy.
Enrolment
Fee
£399 including VAT.
Enrolment: to enrol and secure your place on the course, click below
Introduction to Creative Writing
Thursdays 10-12.30pm
Payment plans are available. Contact Cathy Hayward to find out more.