Crafting Your Writing: a course in developing skills and techniques that bring your words to life
In this course, you’ll explore techniques that help you create compelling characters, believable settings and convincing dialogue. We’ll look at different ways of plotting, balancing detail and description, and playing with viewpoint to create different effects. We’ll consider how other writers create convincing narratives and apply what we learn to our own writing. Our classes are friendly and supportive, and we welcome new and more established writers.
About the tutor
Anna Lawrence writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has been running creative writing workshops across the West Midlands since 2010, and taught creative writing at Birmingham City University for seven years. Her poems were most recently published in Poetry Birmingham, and her novel, Ruby’s Spoon - in which a suspected witch and a suspected mermaid fetch up in a Black Country town - is published by Penguin Books.
DATES/TIMES:
This will be an eight week course, on the follwoing dates -
Tuesday 28th Jan, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 4th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 11th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 25th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 4th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 11th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 18th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 25th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
For more details or to book your place, please follow the Eventbrite link - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-your-writing-tickets-1086943971679?aff=oddtdtcreator
Questions? Email BWriting@icloud.com
What people say about the workshops:
"Anna has an enthusiasm for the craft of writing that is contagious. I found it impossible not to leave her class excited for whatever writing task we had been set, knowing that she had explained some technique or form with enough detail that the task would stretch my ability and make me a better writer."
"Her compassion for writers green and experienced, and her passion for the subject, make her a thoughtful and considerate teacher who nurtures the best out of her students. Anyone fortunate enough to be taught by Anna is in the very best of hands!"
"With her help, I have not only improved my writing technically, but have developed a whole routine for allowing creative inspiration I had previously been missing."
