Whether at home or abroad, grab your pen and join us for our online summer creative writing course when we write about the importance of place, journeys, holidays and coming home.
As well as this we'll be covering some technical stuff, such as the importance of re-writing / self editing, overcoming block / the self-doubting inner voice, keeping on and up.
Also trouble shooting such as when a story isn’t working, ways to reignite it, changing POV or tense, cutting subplots or secondary characters, etc.
As ever, Paul Burston and Karen McLeod will be setting exercises, encouraging you to share your work and offering a safe and cheery space to explore your words and ideas.
£60 for the course.
Karen McLeod is a writer, performer, creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, was published by Jonathan Cape. It won the Betty Trask Award and was translated widely.
She wrote 'The Eyelash' in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her soon to be published memoir, Lifting Off (Muswell Press, June 2024) is about the years she worked as cabin crew. When she's not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the creaky boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.
Paul Burston is the author of six novels and five non-fiction books and the editor of two short story collections. He is the founder of Polari literary salon and the Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ writing. His latest book is the memoir We Can Be Heroes, described by ES Magazine as “probably the gay book of the year” and by Bernardine Evaristo as "a compelling and hugely enjoyable memoir about a fearless life lived to the full.”
The cost for the full 6 week course (including the reading week) is £60 + booking fee.
The workshops will be hosted on Zoom. A link will be sent to you before each session.