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- Masterclass: fiction (a one-term intensive workshop)
Course start date: Tue 24 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rowan Hisayo BuchananThis intensive online fiction workshop is open by selective application to a maximum of ten fiction writers working at the advanced and professional levels. Submission deadline is Sunday, 1st September 2024. Please see below for submission details.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £399.00 - Writing for television Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Clive FordDo you want to write a script for television? What do you write and where do you start? Through exercises and examples, this course will assist you in developing your own projects.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £110.00 - Short story writing Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vicky GrutA hands-on introduction to the art of writing short stories. You will receive technical advice, creative exercises to generate ideas, and feedback to develop your writing skills.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £110.00 - Ways into playwriting Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Grant CorrExplore the fundamental techniques of writing for the stage in this introductory course. Get to grips with dialogue, character, story and structure, and start work on your own play.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - Reading for writers: the short story (a fortnightly course) Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Annabel BanksThe best way to write good short stories is to read a lot of good ones first. Dive into the best of short fiction, explore point-of-view, character and pacing, and begin to apply the lessons learnt to your own writing in this fortnightly course.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Writing an academic essay Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sinead KeeganA crash course in essay writing – beginnings, middles and ends. Suitable for students on A level and access courses or undergraduates.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £55.00 - Argonautica: reading group (in translation)Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiA reading group focusing on the Argonautica by the Greek poet Apollonius of Rhodes (in English translation).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Prostitution in Ancient RomeCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbThe oldest profession as practised among the Romans - not for the squeamish.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Children's writing: a taster Course start date: Tue 3 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew WealeFind out more about writing children's stories in this practical and interactive, short taster session.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - From mythical heroines to the emperor's subjects: epistolography in the Roman EmpireCourse start date: Tue 3 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiFind out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Developing your writing for children Course start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neil ArkseyDevelop your children's story with support from classmates and tutor. This course follows on from 'Starting your children's book'. New students are welcome and invited to submit work to the Writing department before being accepted onto the course.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - Writing horror Course start date: Tue 18 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Niki MackayWrite to unsettle, in this six-week trip through the techniques of horror fiction, learning from classic horror authors and contemporary masters of the genre.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Why do we obey? The politics of obedienceCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christian MichelWe groan against bosses, berate politicians, demonstrate against most aspects of the social system, and then humbly take our orders from above. Is obedience imprinted in our genes? How submissive must people be for society to function? In this short course we will discuss the politics of obedience – drawing on psychology, anthropology, history, and political philosophy. - An introduction to African and diaspora studiesCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gabriel Olumide ApataThe course explores the many ways by which Africans came to be dispersed across the world and their political, socio-cultural experiences in their new societies.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - A short history of the Indian subcontinent
Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ketan VariaThe India subcontinent is unique in its heritage and history. Join us for a tour of of the period from Pre-Aryans (c5000 BCE) to the start of the Mughal empire.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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