Creative Writing Summer School

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/08/2024 - 02/08/2024
10:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Location
Sewell Park Academy


Creative Writing Summer School

Over two days in early August, this course will introduce you to a range of writing games and strategies to begin working towards a book, whether that’s a novel or collection of short stories.

We will consider points of view, narrators, poetic prose, place and setting, with a chance to read and get group feedback on your writing. The course will be over each day, so do bring lunch with you.

The course will explore how we develop our ‘voice’ in writing and the aim is to leave with ideas towards writing a full book. We will undertake a series of writing exercises that will encourage you to explore a range of approaches. It is ideal for anyone who wants to write seriously and push their writing in new directions or for newcomers who want to enjoy the pleasure of writing Imaginatively. We will think about what makes a book – what themes interest us personally, and how we can draw from imagination and ​experiences to ‘invent the truth’. We will discuss style – do we have a preferred style of writing and what does that mean?​ How might we find a particular style to get closer to what we want to say?

 

About the tutor

Dr Andrew McDonnell is a published writer of short fiction and poetry. His debut poetry collection, The Somnambulist Cookbook is published by Salt, June 2019 and he has a creative writing handbook You Are the Writer forthcoming with Storymachine. He is the course leader for degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. Andrew lives in Norwich where he has taught creative writing since 2003.

 

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