May 20-Jun 18
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Online 5-Week Evening Course: Non-fiction
Growing your life writing
Alice Jolly has won the Pen Ackerley Prize for memoir and teaches life writing at Goldsmiths. Her most recent novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Alice has also won the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and an O.Henry Prize.
Tips
Thomas Keneally says that, ‘Writing is an exercise in controlling your fear. Above all the fear that you are not a…
Exercises
Spend a little time identifying who the people are who might tell you not to write your memoir. Once you have…
Tips
Novelists are always told to show, not tell. They are also told to ‘write in scenes’ which means broadly the same…
Exercises
If you are already writing a memoir, look through the work you have done to date and see where the scenes…
Tips
In the world of creative writing, not all words are created equal. Yes, choosing the right adjectives matter; yes, you should…
Exercises
First of all, create a public space a bar; a hotel reception, a restaurant, a gallery, the foyer of a theatre……
Once you have identified one or more of these forces of opposition people try writing a small part of…
So you are writing a memoir. You’re writing about yourself and you are the main character. Isn’t that right?
Well, yes…
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