Literary non-fiction
Literary non-fiction is wide-ranging, creative and innovative. From short essays to longer prose, from Montaigne to Rebecca Solnit, our courses allow you to explore dynamic, varied and often genre-busting works, across a broad range of subjects.
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We offer daytime, evening and weekend courses, both short and long. Our tutors are experts in their fields and experienced educators. Tutors share their knowledge and passion through presentations, screenings, interactive discussion, analysis, and other activities.
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- Life Writing: chronicling the selfCourse start date: Mon 27 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechWhat draws writers to write about themselves? How might memoirs, diaries, letters and other kinds of self-reflective writing enable us to explore issues beyond the individual lives that they chronicle?
We'll look at the interesting and innovative (and sometimes obsessive) ways in which writers have documented their experiences, identities and travels, exploring what it means to share the most intimate parts of our experience with others.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Wild Women: travel writing by women walkers, cyclists and horse ridersCourse start date: Thu 30 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Woody RiverAdventurous, brave, inspirational and tough! But you don’t have to be! Travel with these four amazing women on their immensely challenging journeys through wild terrains. See the landscapes through their careful descriptions, experience the cultures through their close observations, and meet the people through their intense curiosity, but also glimpse their strength – mental and physical – which made these writings possible.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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