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- Picture book writing: advanced
Course start date: Mon 8 Jan 2024 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew WealeWould you like to workshop, edit and polish your picture book texts for young children? This course is designed for advanced picture book writers wishing to hone their skills and improve their own stories.
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 £75.00 - World cinemaCourse start date: Thu 11 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gillian McIverHave you ever wondered what lies beyond Hollywood? Are you interested in films from across the globe? Then this six-week introductory course is for you. We will consider alternative cinemas to the dominant North American industry and will focus each week on a selection of illustrative films from movie producing continents such as India, Asia, South America and Africa.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Writing a memoir (continuation) Course start date: Fri 12 Jan 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julie GartonSome moments in our lives are so powerful they beg to be shared with the world. This continuation course guides students in developing a memoir project that will resonate and inspire.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Writing fantasy: in partnership with the British Library Course start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Victoria M. AdamsTaking place alongside the British Library’s Fantasy exhibition, this course will teach you to write your own fantasy fiction, from casting heroes to crafting believable worlds.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Five revolutionary exhibitions in art historyCourse start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Henry MartinFrom the opening of the Louvre in 1793 to the present-day Venice Biennale, this course uses five exhibitions (in Anglo-European history) as a jumping off point to explore and examine art-historical and contemporary themes and talking-points, including nationalism, modernism, colonialism, identity politics and representation.
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 £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Reading for writers: feminist fiction (a fortnightly course) Course start date: Wed 17 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Eleanor PennyThe landscape of feminist fiction is rich and multifaceted. In this course we'll explore just a fragment to learn what lessons authors of feminist workscan teach budding writers of fiction. We'll read novels by Doris Lessing, Bernadine Evaristo, Mieko Kawakami, and others. We'll analyse, discuss and use these works to inspire and develop our own fiction. You will need to come to the first class having read the short works 'Woman at Point Zero', by Nawal El Saadawi, and 'The Yellow Wallpaper', by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Writing for magazines Course start date: Tue 31 Oct 2023 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yvonne SinghGet inspired to write on this practical course for freelance journalists and bloggers. Learn to carry out research, interview people, pitch and publish stories, and build your presence on social media.
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 - Towards freedom: from Christina Rossetti to Sylvia PlathCourse start date: Tue 23 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithWe look at how some women poets challenged the expectations of their families and the society in which they lived (reflected in the male-dominated publishing world of their time) to create highly original poetry which changed people’s views of what poetry could achieve.
).Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Fin de siecle writers: Oscar Wilde to Olive SchreinerCourse start date: Mon 29 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechThis online course will look at the unique style of writers who emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. We’ll explore fin de siècle writers who were grappling with new questions of modernity. Using the exciting backdrop of the 1890s, this course explores the cultural innovations of the period alongside the works of Oscar Wilde and other writers of this period.
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 - Writing science fiction
Course start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: KR MoorheadLearn how to build futuristic worlds and set them to explore thought-provoking concepts in this course on writing science fiction.
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 - Unreliable and impossible storytellers: Hotel World, Elizabeth is Missing, Lincoln in the Bardo, PiranesiCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonThis course focuses on the intriguing and unlikely storytellers at work in recent fiction. How do we believe a story told by a woman who has dementia or a man who thinks that only fifteen people ever lived? What do we think when a dead person is telling the story, or a ghost? What are we to make of these improbable and sometimes unsettling stories? Can these unusual narrators open up new ways of thinking about the world?Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Once upon a time in New Hollywood: '70s cinemaCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: John WischmeyerNew Hollywood is a state of mind, not just a place on a map of LA—a film movement led by film school graduates (so there’s hope for you yet) with a passion for filmmaking and the desire to challenge a stagnant status quo. They formed a new wave, working within the studio system but bringing an independent and radical perspective to mainstream filmmaking. These ‘movie brats’ included George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola. And don’t forget Robert Altman. (See separate but related courses on Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, David Lynch and the Coen brothers).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 - Romantic poets of the south westCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Woody RiverWith its wild, rugged terrain and history of radicalism, the West Country was an ideal setting for the Romantic imagination. Drawing on a selection of poems, letters, journals and manifestos, this course explores how the landscape and people of the South West shaped the ideas and inspired the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
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 - America in the 60s: culture and societyCourse start date: Tue 6 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline Greene, Mark Malcomson, Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Paul Sutton, Patricia Sweeney, Ian TucknottThe 1960s was the decade that profoundly changed American culture. We explore the trajectory of a decade, including the presidential terms of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, second wave feminism and radical changes in literature, art, music and film, all reflecting the historical turbulence of 1960s America.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Memories of authoritarian regimes in 20th-century Latin AmericaCourse start date: Wed 14 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna GrimaldiThis course explores the aftermath of authoritarian and military regimes in Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00
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