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Nottingham Writers' Studio Writing Workshops with award-winning writers - book your place now
Published: 23 June 2010
Nottingham Writers’ Days are a programme of one-day intensive writing workshops, led by award-winning writers from Nottingham Writers’ Studio. Each day will include workshop sessions, writing exercises and peer reviewing, plus individual discussions about your work.
The sessions will be held at Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery from 10.15am-5.30pm, followed by a group dinner at 6pm. There will be a limit of 12 participants for each workshop.
Cost: £45 NWS Members and Concessions £75 Non-members per event. This will include tuition, tea/coffee on arrival (replenished throughout the day), lunch, and dinner.
The upcoming Nottingham Writers' Days are as follows:
Saturday 10th July 2010
‘From Idea to Screenplay’ with Michael Eaton
Writers who wish to participate in this workshop must have no inhibitions,
for they will be required (in the company of folk they have never met
before) to develop an idea of their own through various stages: the pitch,
the outline, the treatment and, at last, the screenplay. In the history of
cinema the genesis of most films has come from a story which already
existed, so the focus will be on ‘Adaptation’. Each participant should bring
a five minute statement of an idea they would like to turn into a screenplay
(of any length). This founding notion might derive from a newspaper
article, from another medium, perhaps even from an incident in their own
lives. In the morning we will benignly share these tales and in the
afternoon we will critically work together to wonder how the principles of
narrative structure might be mobilised to turn base metal into dramatic
gold.
Saturday 25th September 2010
‘Planning and Developing Your Novel’ with Nicola Monaghan
This course will focus on the issues faced by a novelist producing an
extended piece of work. Looking at plot, narrative structure, character and
practical approaches to planning your work, the session will involve writing
exercises, discussion and analysis of other writers' work. Ideally
participants will have been writing for a while and, to get the most out of
the day, will bring ideas about a project to develop during the workshops.
Saturday 23rd October 2010
‘Cross It Out and Start Again: Editing Fiction’ with Jon McGregor
This course will look at the art of editing, where much of the work of
writing is really done. We'll study some before-and-after examples from
published writers' work, and consider some of the aims and challenges of
insightful editing, before moving on to wield the mighty red pen over some
of our own work. The workshops will concentrate on editing shorter pieces,
but we will also cover ways of approaching the overall structure and shape
of a novel. Participants should bring a piece of writing with them: either a
short story, or a novel extract with associated synopsis/outline. Mighty
red pens will be provided.
For more information and to book your place on one or more of the courses, please go to the Nottingham Writers' Studio website.
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