Through this online course, you will become confident in writing convincing dialogue and gripping narrative, and in creating situations and characters with which young adults can identify.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
How can poetic form help you to turn the passion and intensity of life into memorable expressions? This course is for anyone who would like to start to write, or to write better, poetry.
A practical course covering all aspects of novel writing from character creation and story development to final edit.
A creative and critical 10-week online course helping you develop your passion for drama into the craft of dramatic writing.
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.
A weekend exploring novel and short-story writing: genre, character development, research, plot development, scene-setting, metaphor, narrative voice, first-draft completion. A fun, interactive event for writers with some previous experience.
Life writing – whether memoir, biography, literary non-fiction, eye-witness accounts, blogs (the list goes on) – can be very powerful when told with brevity. Short-form writing is an end in itself; it also helps us focus on our writerly craft.
Short enough to write in a single day, flash fiction is an agile, innovative form that brings character, mood and language to the forefront. This online workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced writers.
A practical course covering the craft of self-editing and revision, including learning to critically read your own work, developing personalised techniques for story-level and language-level rewriting, and knowing when it’s finished.
Writing flash fiction brings benefits to writers of all stripes. In this hands-on workshop, we'll be writing each week, discussing our work, and developing new skills in brevity, language and form.
Every day we meet people with interesting life stories. Our lives are made up of tragic, uplifting and humorous experiences which shape us as individuals. We love, fight, apologise, account for and endure through whatever comes our way.
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.