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You know the drill. Find the course that you would love to join. Then worry that the dates won’t suit. They don’t?
Just change your life around. Cancel your eldest’s wedding. Cancel your own wedding. Now the dates suit. Doesn’t that feel, mmm, so much better.
Upcoming courses
SEE ALL COURSESMentoring fiction or poetry
For a writer with a work in progress I offer one-to-one mentoring to provide feedback and discuss ideas, challenges and give practical encouragement when things seem to flag. I’ve written four novels, which have been published in the UK and US and in several languages and I sold my TV rights to my first one. […]
FIND OUT MOREWriting group: Fiction
This group will meet to create and discuss fiction writing. It will be kept small so that full attention can be given to all the participants. The sessions will be a mixture of short seminars, workshops for work in progress, and discussion. We’ll explore the nuts and bolts of fiction: structure, voice, dialogue, pace, and […]
FIND OUT MOREMentoring – nonfiction
Develop and refine your non-fiction writing skills with one-to-one mentoring. This can be done over the course of one or two years, or by arrangement.
FIND OUT MORENonfiction writing group
The group will meet to discuss members’ ongoing work and writing process. We will discuss voice, flow, structure, narrative, the use of humour, illustrations, editing, finding an agent, and more.
FIND OUT MORENonfiction journo ninja
All the essential journalistic skills, processes and techniques for writing factual books with precision and flair, including researching, investigating, interviewing, note-keeping, libel law, getting it all organised and getting the right style and angle.
FIND OUT MORELiterary prostitution
Dostoyevsky said a book should start selling itself from the day you begin writing. The literary world might pretend commerce is grubby, but it’s what our biz is all about.
FIND OUT MOREPop science, steamy academia
Liberate your academically sound, scientifically flawless words from the ivory tower. Develop style and colour that conveys complex ideas with simplicity and integrity. An eight-week course with a weekly two-hour Zoom session for a maximum of eight people.
FIND OUT MORELife-writing
Writing a memoir involves joys and pitfalls but also some technical challenges, successful memoirs are all about the quality of writing. Together we can develop the best way to tell your personal story.
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