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We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- How to develop a sustainable writing practiceCourse start date: Sun 9 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: KR MoorheadCreate a routine that will help your long-term ambitions as a writer.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Writing music journalism
Course start date: Sun 9 Jun 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Liam KonemannLearn how to write journalistically about music, from reviews to interviews, in this intensive one-day course.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Writing villanelles Course start date: Wed 12 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellen CranitchDo not go gentle into that good night; write villanelles that rage, rage against the dying light. Learn about the form popularised by Dylan Thomas, in order to manipulate it in new, subversive ways.
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 £45.00 - Writing the queer play Course start date: Sat 15 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Grant CorrExplore the queer play on this course for playwrights. In the workshop you will be given opportunities to construct your own queer characters giving you the tools and confidence to write the stories that you want to tell.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Masters of style: reading and writing Virginia Woolf Course start date: Sat 15 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas McMullan, Patricia SweeneyVirginia Woolf was one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Her approaches to writing character interiority were at the forefront of modernist literary innovations. This day workshop explores the literary interpretations of several seminal texts and writing exercises that encourage you to experiment with Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £30.00 - Writing eco-poetry Course start date: Sat 15 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah WestcottHow might poets write about the natural world today, and what is an eco-poem?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Local history writing Course start date: Sat 15 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Allis MossOn this inspiring short course you will learn how to write local history books, booklets and features; covering a wide range of topics such as family, home towns, old buildings, parks, markets and beyond.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Queer Storytelling: writing as a radical actCourse start date: Sun 16 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Megan BeechThis one day short course will explore the writing of two contemporary queer writers, both of whom use innovative form to tell unique stories of lesbian and trans experience. We'll look at the exhilarating, T.S Eliot Prize winning, C+nto and Othered Poems (2021) by Joelle Taylor and Variations (2022).Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Writing comics and graphic novels Course start date: Mon 17 Jun 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rachael BallLearn the skills to write comics on this introductory course. Discover the history and key features of the medium and create your own project.
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 art criticism Course start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas McMullanLearn how to write journalistically about visual art, from exhibition reviews to features, in this intensive one-day course.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Writing the family Course start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nick BarlayTackle the challenges of writing about family life in this thought-provoking workshop about how to craft personal stories into an engaging narrative.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Investigative journalism Course start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Allis MossGet to grips with the skills needed to make a start in investigative journalism.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Queering characterisation: writing LGBTQIA+ charactersCourse start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Charlotte HeatherJoin this interactive one-day course which brings together essential elements of characterisation and its relation to plot through the lens of queer writing. You will delve into elements of craft in characterisation while referring back to examples and questions of LGBTQIA+ representation and histories in literature.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - How to pitch your screenplay
Course start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alan NixonYou've worked hard on a screenplay but how do you sell it? This short intensive course identifies tools you can select to create a compelling Pitch Treatment. Please note: this course will have a 2-hr break from 12:30-14:30.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - How to write a novel synopsis and query letterCourse start date: Sun 23 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosie ChardThis one-day workshop teaches students how to write a query letter and synopsis of their completed manuscript, essential requirements of submitting to agents and publishers.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00
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