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Structure and stories: summer course

This 4 week course will take place in central Manchester in August.

You will study how to structure your work by looking both at short, and long, fiction. Creative works will be used as models, and you will also consider narrative theory and undertake writing practice. You will discover how to craft your work via traditional plots, but also how character, time and voice can impact structure.

Duration: 4 weeks, 2 hours per session. Extras: optional 'aftercare'

Tutor: Dr Sarah Dobbs, author of Killing Daniel

Suitable for all levels of writer, though some experience will be useful

More information:
http://www.freewebstore.org/Creative-...

Or email sarahjanedobbs@gmail.com
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Published on May 08, 2013 03:40 Tags: courses, creative-writing

Creative Writing workshops for the terrified...or rusty, Manchester

Fortnighty workshops starting October 15th.

A friendly space to practice your writing and gain valuable feedback. All levels welcome!

http://www.meetup.com/WritingManchest...
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Published on September 24, 2013 08:02 Tags: creative-writing, manchester, workshops

Hotcourses offer, new Red Room review and competition

Hello all, in a nice end to the week I've just seen a new review of the forthcoming Red Room: New Short Stories Inspired by the Brontes.

The collection itself includes some great stories by the following:

Elizabeth Baines Bill Broady David Constantine Carys Davies Sarah Dobbs Vanessa Gebbie Tania Hershman Zoë King Rowena Macdonald Alison Moore David Rose Felicity Skelton and a poem by Simon Armitage Edited by A. J. Ashworth

It's available for pre-order now and is out on 1 November.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Room-Stor...

Here's the lovely review:

http://ourbookreviewsonline.blogspot....

Our courses are also doing well and there's a half-price hotcourses special offer for anyone interested - just though I'd mention it here too. £30 for a 4 week online beginners course. You can also buy now as a voucher and book within 12 months.

To book:

http://www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/...

You can find out more about all our courses via the website too:

http://cwartistsway.wordpress.com

Also, wrote a story this week and submitted to the London Magazine competition. It has a polishing motif and the main character is called Harold. Much tamer than my novel. It definitely helps to take a break from novels every once in a while, write something short and I think allows for some refocussing?

Here's the competition link, if anyone's interested in having a go. Deadline is 31 October.

http://thelondonmagazine.org/tlm-comp...
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Published on October 18, 2013 07:42 Tags: brontes, competition, creative-writing, hotcourses, london-magazine, red-room, short-story

10 week Creative Writing course for £10

This 10 week distance learning beginners course can be completed in your own time. The materials and course were built from evening courses I'd run when lecturing at Blackburn. There are examples of writing and we provide unique and lively tasks to get you looking at the world more creatively - and get you writing fiction.

A good start if you're new to writing and want to learn a few basics before coming to our workshops!

Price: usually £15, now £10

To book, just send a paypal payment of £10 to dobbs_sarah@hotmail.com or register for the course on our writing group

Any questions, just ask!

Creative writing: complete beginners - self study

This self-study course is for complete beginners and is an expanded version of our textbook, Creative Writing for Creative People: Beginners. It includes additional exercises, examples and tutor comments to help you through the course. There is an end of course task that will get you working towards a goal for the remainder of the course, putting into practice what you have learned so far. The course is designed to aid complete beginners to Creative Writing, or to provide a quick refresher or sampler for those who are not quite ready to start one of our tutored courses. Course materials are sent as a PDF document, or you can study online, depending on your preference.

Week 1 – Freewriting

Week 2 – Keeping a journal and starting to look

Week 3 - Effective Critiquing and Redrafting

Week 4 – Writing from Life

Week 5 – Creating Character

Week 6 - Dialogue

Week 7 – Short stories, opening lines and plot

Week 8 – End of course task and poetry

Week 9 - Script

Week 10 – Where to go from here...

You can see all our other courses on Hotcourses
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Published on May 12, 2014 03:48 Tags: course-offer, creative-writing, distance