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Newcastle Writing Courses

Launching in 2023 in partnership with New Writing North, our programme of writing courses in Newcastle will include fiction, poetry, memoir and children's writing and take place at The Common Room.

Our Newcastle writing courses: an overview

After over a decade of welcoming students to Faber's London offices, we're thrilled to be hosting a full programme of writing courses in Newcastle. We've partnered with New Writing North and The Common Room for this new venture, with courses for 2023 including our flagship six-month Writing a Novel course along with shorter courses across a variety of genres.

The Common Room is a new charity, formed to lead the restoration of Neville Hall in Newcastle. Their vision is to use their unique heritage to inspire the next generation of innovators and engineers.

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Newcastle Writing Courses (3)

Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction (Newcastle)

A twelve-week creative writing course for beginners. Playful, serious and fun, it asks what writing is and why we do it.

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Starting out

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Newcastle

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12 weeks

Tutors

Margaret Wilkinson

Start Date

Thursday 06 Apr 2023

£795
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Crime, Fiction Development, Novel Writing, Writing for Children

Start to Write (Newcastle)

A no-excuses, let’s-get-going, beginners' creative writing course to kickstart your writing life.

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Starting out

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Newcastle

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1-5 days

Tutors

Richard Skinner

Start Date

Saturday 06 May 2023

£80
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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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Newcastle Course Tutors

Margaret Wilkinson

Margaret Wilkinson

Recently retired senior lecturer in prose and scriptwriting on the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, where she has taught...

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Richard Skinner

Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ‘beautifully written...

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Lucie Brownlee

Lucie is a multi-award-winning writer based in County Durham. Her memoir Life After You was published in 2014 by Penguin Random House. Based on her award-winning...

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Lucie Brownlee

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From author interviews and writing tips to creative writing exercises and reading lists, we've got everything you need to get started – and to keep going.

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