Lancashire Writing Hub, in partnership with Lancashire County Library & Information Service are delivering fantastic developmental creative writing courses this year.
Our first course, Getting Started, has been running throughout March, and next up, Progressing Your Work will be running in May, and Advanced Creative Writing Skills in June/July. Both courses are booking up fast but there are a few places left on each course:
Progressing Your Work: Creative Writing Course – MAY:
Saturday mornings 11am – 1pm on 5th, 12th , 19th and 26th May.
The second course, Progressing Your Work, will aim to develop your writing further and enhance your skills in characterisation, plot, and managing the whole writing project. This will be delivered by Mick Bruce, published poet, creative writing tutor to university level and editor of online writers’ magazine Natterjack.
This course will include:
- developing characters – making them more rounded / memorable
- developing dialogue
- using description to enhance the tone and atmosphere of a piece of writing
- structure: getting a good opening and a good ending
- responding positively (not just defensively) to constructive criticism
with opportunities for possible publication of some of the resultant stories in Natterjack!
Course costs £60 for the four weeks, and includes refreshments
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Advanced Creative Writing Skills Course – JUNE / JULY:
Saturday mornings 11am – 1pm on 30th June, 7th, 14th, and 21st July.
The final course, Advanced Creative Writing Skills, will aim to develop your re-drafting, editing and finishing skills to an advanced level to enable you to take your work to a professional standard. This course will be delivered by Sarah Dobbs a lecturer in English and Creative Writing.
Co-founder of Creative Writing the Artist’s Way, her first novel was published in 2006 and her next, Killing Daniel, will be published this year. Her scripts and short stories have been accepted, broadcast and performed, both in the UK and abroad, by the BBC, Bolton Octagon, ADC Theatre, Unthank and SWAMP journal.
The Advanced Course will include:
1) Reading as a writer – analysing author’s drafts from first to final to see how they did it (eg Virginia Woolf, Sarah’s own)
2) A mini advice guide / top tips from published writers
3) Rewriting yourself and each other (peer critique)
4) Markets, agents and editors – the CL, the writer’s CV, the synopsis.
Each course costs £60 for the four weeks, and includes refreshments.
The courses will be held at Accrington Library, St James Street, Accrington, Lancs BB5 1NQ.
Accrington Library is 5 minutes walk from Accrington Railway Station, and there are at least 2 trains per hour from Preston, Manchester and Lancaster; or by road it is 20 miles from Preston on the M65, and 22 miles from Manchester on the M66.
You can find out more about Accrington Library and how to get there
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Artist and writer Bryan Talbot is widely considered to be the godfather of modern British comics and one of the progenitors of the Steampunk genre. Starting out in the underground comic scene in the early seventies, he went on to create Britain’s first graphic novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, worked on 2000AD’s iconic Nemesis the Warlock and Judge Dredd and DC Comics’ Batman and Sandman, before achieving even greater acclaim for graphic novels The Tale of One Bad Rat, Heart of Empire, Alice in Sunderland (hailed by the Guardian as one of the ten best graphic novels ever) and, more recently, his series of Grandville books.
