DISCOVER THE WRITER WITHIN --- join me on a Creative Writing Course

It's January. It's time to make changes, to make new beginnings, to do things...(and the best writing advice I ever got was "if you do something, something happens...")

If you've always wanted to write come join a supportive and imaginative course this spring.  I also run specialist courses in London and Brighton...if you want to know more or find out if it is suitable for you do get in touch. My email address is softrain AT ntlworld.com. You can also access it by clicking on my profile (see the column on the right). I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to see you in the classroom.

BRIGHTON

TEN WEEK COURSES STARTING IN JANUARY 

CREATIVE WRITING A confidence-building journey of imagination

Monday evenings at Portslade Community College, Chalky Road, Portslade 7pm - 9pm

Cost: £50.00 £30.00 concessions

Thursday mornings 9.45 am to 11.45 am South Portslade Community Centre, Church Road

Cost: £50.00 £30.00 concessions

Tel: 01273 422 632 email

http://www.pcc-web.com/

TOWARDS PUBLICATION

Friday mornings at The Friends Centre at Brighton Junction (just by Brighton Station)

10 am - 12 noon

 Cost: £80.00 concession £48.00

Tel: 01273 810210 

http://www.friendscentre.org/

LONDON

My spring courses at City Lit in Convent Garden, Central London are full but the summer term starts at the end of April.

WRITING YOUR FAMILY BIOGRAPHY

Friday Afternoon 3.45 pm to 5.45  

WAYS INTO CREATIVE WRITING - an introductory course 

Friday evening 6 pm to 8 pm

Cost: £105 concessions £32

I'll also be running a week long summer school with very, very good concessionary rates

http://www.citylit.ac.uk

ONE DAY WORKSHOPS  
Ready Steady Write – A Toolkit for Fiction

SATURDAY Feb 12 at the Friends Centre

Character and Dialogue

10 am - 4 pm

Cost: £30.00 (each workshop)

SATURDAY FEB 19

Description and Point of View

10 am - 4 pm

Cost: £30.00 (each workshop)

SATURDAY MARCH 19

 Plots and Ideas

10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £30.00 (each workshop)

  

Heritage Funded Local History workshops

INSPIRED BY HISTORY

 Monday February 7 10.30 am --- 3 pm

Using the material produced by the oral history project to kickstart ideas,  we will weave stories about the people who once lived and worked in the Tarner area of Brighton. 

Cost: free

INSPIRED BY WOMEN

Monday March 7 10.30 am – 3 pm

2011 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day which this year is on Tuesday March 8. To mark this special occasion we are running a workshop the day before to focus on the lives of Tarner women, turning history into herstory. Through the resources produced by the Tarner History Project we will  explore the struggles, concerns and achievements of local women of previous generations. Everyone – male and female, experience writers and absolute beginners – very welcome.

With the writer’s permission, work from these special workshops may be published on the Tarner Stories website and in printed form in 2012

http://www.tarnerhistory.org/