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Courses lasting 12 weeks (7)

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Non-fiction

Memoir and Life Writing (Newcastle)

How to write a life – let alone your own? Spend three months in expert company, asking and answering the questions that a memoirist needs to answer.

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Improving

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Newcastle

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12 weeks

Tutors

Lucie Brownlee

Start Date

Thursday 29 Jun 2023

£795
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Fiction Development

Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction

Everything you need to call yourself a writer – discipline, craft skills and a great group of people to work with – in one online writing course experience.

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Starting out

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Judith Bryan

Start Date

Monday 03 Jul 2023

£395
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Kickstart Your Novel

Take your writing to the next level, and develop both the technical skill and the narrative momentum to really get stuck into your novel.

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Improving

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12 weeks

Tutors

Maame Blue

Start Date

Monday 03 Jul 2023

£595
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing, Writing for Children

Writing for Children

Don't you just take out all the long words? No. It's harder than that, but this inspiring children's writing course will help.

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Improving

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Anthony McGowan

Start Date

Thursday 14 Sep 2023

£995
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Fiction Development, Short Story

Short Stories I: An Introduction to the Form

Learn the craft of short story writing, then create and polish new stories of your own with an award-winning writer.

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Starting out

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Lucy Caldwell

Start Date

Thursday 21 Sep 2023

£850
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Poetry

Writing Poems

A playful, supportive three-month poetry course for beginners and aspiring amateur poets, with two of the best practitioners and teachers in the country.

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Starting out

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Newcastle

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12 weeks

Tutors

Pippa Little, John Challis

Start Date

Wednesday 27 Sep 2023

£595
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Fiction Development, Short Story

Short Stories II: Developing Your Craft

You’ve got to grips with the basics – now it’s time to make your short stories shine.

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

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Lucy Caldwell

Start Date

Thursday 11 Jan 2024

£850
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Writing a Novel alumna Ania Bas on writing the main character of her debut novel, published earlier

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My Road to Publication… And What I Learned Along the Way

The author of Honey and Me (published by Scholastic Press) on how her book came to be

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