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Beginnings, Middles & Endings with Alison Moore Leicester and courses with January – April 2015 Writing School East Midlands – The Writing School in Leicester and Nottingham builds on 60 years of experience to provide courses, workshops and events to help writers of all abilities to develop their own work. Book online at www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk Poetry Workshop with Mimi Khalvati and courses with Maxine Linnell Lydia Towsey Polly Tuckett Rod Duncan Creative Writing Courses
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Writing School East Midlands is a specialist creative writing school based in Leicester and Nottingham. They deliver short writing courses and special events taught by professional fiction writers, poets and editors.
Transcript of Writing School East Midlands Spring Programme 2015
Beginnings, Middles& Endings with Alison Moore
Leicester
and courses with
January – April 2015
Writing School East Midlands – The Writing School in Leicester and Nottingham builds on 60 years of experienceto provide courses, workshops and events to help writers of all abilities to develop their own work.
Book online at www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
Poetry Workshopwith Mimi Khalvati
and courses with
Maxine Linnell Lydia Towsey
Polly Tuckett Rod Duncan
Creative WritingCourses
Make time for writingWelcome to Writing School East Midlands: Leicester
Founded over sixty years ago Writing School Leicester, now with the support ofWriting East Midlands, has blossomed in the last few years into Writing SchoolEast Midlands with bases in Leicester and Nottingham. Our new programme of courses, workshops and special events reflects the Writing School’scommitment to providing excellent tuition in a supportive and creativeenvironment, and we welcome writers of all abilities regardless of experienceand academic qualifications.
Our tutors are not only celebrated writers and performers in their own right, butaccomplished teachers acknowledged for their skills and ability to work with abroad spectrum of readers and writers across a range of genres and forms,including novel writing, short fiction, memoir and poetry. Our Leicester tutorsare: Rod Duncan, Maxine Linnell, Polly Tuckett, and, new to Writing SchoolLeicester, Alison Moore and Lydia Towsey.
Our Special Events programme offers wonderful opportunities to work withdistinguished visiting writers from across the country. This season’s programmeincludes Mimi Khalvati and David Constantine. Previous guest tutors haveincluded Rob Gee, Joel Stickley and Farhana Shaikh.
We’re delighted to be working with new creative partners and venues in Leicester including: The Y, Phoenix Square Arts Centre, Embrace Arts, LCBDepot and Lyric Lounge Leicester. We look forward to building on a newpublishing partnership with Brittle Star magazine and would like to thank Pewter Rose Press for its continued support of The Writing School Anthology.And we give very warm thanks to Leicester Adult Education College for all thesupport it has given us over the years.
Writing East Midlands administrates Writing School East Midlands and is a not-for-profitorganisation supported by Arts Council England.
Novel Writing Workshop with Rod Duncan8 Week CourseDay & Time: Tuesdays 7.15pm – 9.15pmDate: 20 January – 17 March
(no session 17 Feb.)Where: Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland
Street, Leicester LE1 1TGCost: £128, £104 conc.*Booking code: WSL1502
The best way to learn the craft of the novelist is to writea novel. Through the sharing of work-in-progress anddetailed feedback, participants hone their writing andcritiquing skills. This class is driven by the participants’needs, so we will spend time focusing on specificwriting issues such as dialogue or plotting whenrequested. All levels of experience are welcome.
More Magic of Fairy Taleswith Polly Tuckett4 Week CourseDay & Time: Mondays 11am – 1pmDate: 23 February – 16 MarchWhere: LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street,
Leicester LE1 1RECost: £64, £52 conc.*Booking code: WSL1504
Following on from The Magic of Fairy Tales, this shortcourse will deepen our understanding of this timelessgenre through examples of familiar and less well knownfairy tales. We will write our own versions of classictales as well as original works of fantastic fiction.
Writing Workshop 2with Maxine Linnell4 Week CourseDay & Time: Wednesdays 10am – 12pmDate: 25 February – 18 MarchWhere: LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street,
Leicester LE1 1RECost: £64, £52 conc.*Booking code: WSL1505
This course will encourage you to experiment with awide range of writing styles and genres – fiction,poetry, drama, memoir and more. Using play, exercisesand feedback we will discover new possibilities andexplore unexpected areas in our writing. All levels ofexperience are welcome.
Writing Poetry for Performancewith Lydia Towsey4 Week CourseDay & Time: Thursdays 6.30pm – 8.30pmDate: 26 February – 19 MarchWhere: The Y, 7 East Street, City Centre,
Leicester LE1 6EYCost: £64, £52 conc.*Booking code: WSL1506
Join poet and performer Lydia Towsey for this shortcourse focused on writing poetry for performance.Combining creative writing with performance skills,participants will develop new work across a range ofgenres and styles and discover their own unique voice.We will briefly explore the history of performancepoetry and debate the differences and similaritiesbetween writing for the page and stage.
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PLEASE NOTE: places are limited on these courses, therefore early booking is advisable.
Writing School AnthologyWe’ve partnered up with Pewter Rose Press to produce the second Writing SchoolAnthology. All writers enrolled on one of our courses between August 2013 and December2015 will have the chance to submit a piece of writing to be considered for the anthology. Eachsubmission will go through a selection and editorial process, giving Writing School participantsvaluable insight into the practice of submitting your work to a publisher. Chosen pieces will bepublished in the anthology. See www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk for more details.
Beginnings, Middles & Endingswith Alison Moore3 Week CourseDay & Time: Tuesday 1pm – 3pmDate: 28 April – 12 MayWhere: Embrace Arts, Lancaster Rd,
Leicester LE1 7HACost: £60, £50 conc.*Booking code: WSL1509
Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Alison Moore(author of Man Booker shortlisted The Lighthouse) willbe leading this three-part exploration of narrative.Session one – Beginnings – will consider ways in whichstories are conceived as well as examining the art ofthe first line. Session two – Middles – will look atnarrative shape and pace. Finally, Endings will addressthe point at which we might leave a story as well asexploring the power of last lines.
Line Breaks in Free VerseWorkshop with Mimi KhalvatiOne-day Special Event WorkshopDate & time: Sunday, 15th March 2015,
11am – 5pmWhere: Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland
Street, Leicester LE1 1TGCost: £45, £35 conc.*Booking code: WSL1510
The line break is the sine qua non of free verse. Notonly does it establish a poem as poem but, being themost precise of instruments, defines its very nature. Inthis workshop, we will explore how we can refine thatinstrument, empower and employ it, both as writersand readers. Through exercises, we will discover newstyles of lineation and how to relineate previouslywritten poems to give them new life and meaning.Prepare to get excited about linebreaks!
Special Event
Performing Poetry Workshopwith Lydia TowseyDate & Time: Thursday 26th March,
6.30pm – 8.30pmWhere: The Y, 7 East Street, City Centre,
Leicester LE1 6EYCost: £18, £14 conc.*Booking code: WSL1507
Join experienced live literature performer Lydia Towseyfor a practical workshop on performing your poetry. Wewill look at lifting work from the page, exploringmicrophone and vocal skills, introductions, intonation,body language and confidence. We welcome all levelsof ability and no previous experience is needed.
Special Offer: If you have attended Writing Poetry forPerformance you can book Performing Poetry Workshopat the discounted price of £14 (proof of booking isrequired).
MagazineLiterary magazine Brittle Star has almost 15 years experience publishing new andemerging short story writers and poets,many for the first time. Writing SchoolEast Midlands is delighted to be able tooffer our participants the chance tosubmit work for consideration.Submissions will be read by twoprofessional editors and final selectionswill be published in a future issue ofBrittle Star. www.brittlestar.org.uk. Ifyou’ve attended courses in Leicester orNottingham you can submit work forconsideration. For further informationplease visit our websitewww.writingeastmidlands.co.uk or [email protected]
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PLEASE NOTE: places are limited on these courses, therefore early booking is advisable.
POLLY TUCKETT is a published writer and tutor of creative writing with over fifteenyears teaching experience. She teaches in a range of settings and pitches her coursesto people of all abilities and varying levels of writing experience. Polly has goodknowledge of the local literary scene having curated Short Fuse, a short fiction spokenword showcase for several years in Brighton and Leicester.
ROD DUNCAN is a novelist and screenwriter. His first novel Backlash was shortlistedfor the John Creasey Dagger for the best debut crime novel. His publishers includeSimon & Schuster, Five Leaves, George Ronald and Angry Robot. His science fictionnovel, The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter (Angry Robot, 2014), has been shortlisted for thePhilip K Dick Award.
MAXINE LINNELL has written three novels for young adults: Vintage, Closer, (FiveLeaves and A&C Black) and Breaking the Rules (Bloomsbury). Real Reads have alsopublished her three retellings of novels by Thomas Hardy for children and youngpeople. She mentors new writers and runs story cafes in Leicester Libraries.
LYDIA TOWSEY has a Masters in Creative Writing. Shortlisted for the Bridport PoetryPrize (2012), she’s spoken at the House of Lords and performed at London’s 100 Club.Her collection, The Venus Papers will be published by Burning Eye Books in 2015.
ALISON MOORE’s short fiction has been published in Best BritishShort Stories anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The title story of herdebut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, won a New Writer novellaprize. Her first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012and the National Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterickPrize 2013. Her second novel, He Wants, was published in August.
MIMI KHALVATI has published seven collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a FinancialTimes Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Her most recentcollection is The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is thefounder of The Poetry School in London, where she is a tutor. She has received aCholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, and is a Fellow of the Royal Societyof Literature.
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Nottingham
February – March 2015
Masterclass withDavid Constantine
Poetry Workshopwith Mimi Khalvati
Writing School East Midlands – The Writing School in Leicester and Nottingham builds on 60 years of experienceto provide courses, workshops and events to help writers of all abilities to develop their own work.
and courses with
and courses with
Book online at www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
Creative WritingCourses
Wayne Burrows Jacqueline Gabbitas
Alison MooreKerry Young Stephen Booth
Make time for writingWelcome to Writing School East Midlands: Nottingham
Founded over sixty years ago Writing School Leicester, now with the support ofWriting East Midlands, has blossomed in the last few years into Writing SchoolEast Midlands with bases in Leicester and Nottingham. Our new programme of courses, workshops and special events reflects the Writing School’scommitment to providing excellent tuition in a supportive and creativeenvironment, and we welcome writers of all abilities regardless of experience and academic qualifications.
Our tutors are not only celebrated writers and performers in their own right, butaccomplished teachers acknowledged for their skills and ability to work with abroad spectrum of readers and writers across a range of genres and forms,including novel writing, short fiction, memoir and poetry. Our Nottingham tutorsare: Stephen Booth, Wayne Burrows, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Alison Moore andKerry Young.
Our Special Events programme offers wonderful opportunities to work withdistinguished visiting writers from across the country. This season’s programmeincludes Mimi Khalvati and David Constantine.
We’re delighted to be working once again with our venue partner WaterstonesNottingham and thank them for the use of the Sillitoe Room. We look forward tobuilding on a new publishing partnership with Brittle Star magazine, and thankPewter Rose Press for its continued support of The Writing School Anthology.
Writing East Midlands administrates Writing School East Midlands and is a not-for-profitorganisation supported by Arts Council England.
Courses
Finding your Voice with Kerry Young5 Week CourseDay & Time: Mondays, 6pm – 8pmDate: 23 February – 23 MarchWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £80, £65 conc.*Booking code: WSN1502
This short course will help you to develop narrative voicesthat fit your character(s) and story. You will learn how touse voice to drive plot and build dramatic tension, andhow to craft dialogue that is authentic and purposeful.You will participate in writing exercises and share yourwork within the group. Suitable for writers at all levels.
Writing Successful CrimeFiction with Stephen Booth5 Week CourseDay & Time: Thursdays, 6pm – 8pmDate: 26 February – 26 MarchWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £80, £65 conc.Booking code: WSN1503
This course will explore the routes to writing successfulcrime fiction and examine its most vital elements –creating characters, building a plot, making use oflocation – as well as how to improve the chances ofpublication. Sessions will include interactive teaching,group discussion, exercises, and feedback. Suitable forall levels of experience.
Leap into Poetry withJacqueline Gabbitas4 Week CourseDay & Time: Thursdays, 1pm – 3pmDate: 26 February – 19 MarchWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £64, £56 conc.Booking code: WSN1504
Taking the building blocks of poetry writing as its focus,this short course will explore imagery, structure, soundand language to produce poetry drafts we can developat home. Suitable for writers new to poetry as well aspoets looking for inspiration through exercises,examples and group feedback.
Elements of Fiction with Alison Moore5 Week CourseDay & Time: Fridays 1pm – 3pmDate: 27 February – 27 MarchWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £80, £65 conc.Booking code: WSN1505
Alison Moore (author of the Man Booker Prize shortlistedThe Lighthouse) will be leading this examination ofvarious aspects of prose fiction. Over five sessions,participants will explore story structure, setting, thenarrator, conflict and backstory, looking at examplesfrom contemporary novels and short stories as well asproducing their own work. Suitable for all levels.
PLEASE NOTE: places are limited on these courses, therefore early booking is advisable.
Metre & Rhythm with Wayne Burrows4 Week CourseDay & Time: Fridays 6pm – 8pm Date: 6 – 27 MarchWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5 Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £64, £52 conc.* Booking code: WSN1506
Learning how to use poetic metre is about developing our ability to hear the natural rhythms of speech andlanguage themselves. In this course, we will learn to recognise and use the key features of traditional metricalunits, from the everyday bread and butter of iambics to the slightly more exotic likes of anapests, spondees anddactyls and focus on learning to hear metre in the language that surrounds us everyday.
Close Reading the ElegyMasterclass with David ConstantineDate & time: Saturday, 7th February 2015,
1pm – 4pmWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £24, £18 conc.Booking code: WSN1501
The elements of a traditional elegy mirror three stagesof loss: lament, then praise and admiration of theidealized dead, and finally consolation and solace. Poetssuch as Auden, Celan, Rilke, Heaney, Dunn, Lowell andHughes wrote memorable examples. In thismasterclass, award-winning poet David Constantinewill share with the group examples of elegies for closereading and discussion, and give insights in to how thisdemanding and inspiring form works.
Participants on this workshop are also invited toattend David’s reading at Waterstones Nottingham5pm for free (please bring proof of course-booking).
Advanced Poetry Workshopwith Mimi KhalvatiDate & time: Saturday, 14th March 2015,
11am – 5pmWhere: Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5
Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GRCost: £45, £35 conc.*Booking code: WSN1507
This workshop will appeal to those who are moreexperienced in writing poetry and would enjoy taking onfresh challenges. The morning session will consist ofwriting exercises while drawing inspiration from thework of other writers and trying out new approaches.The afternoon will be a feedback session and the groupare invited to bring in a poem of their own with 15photocopies. There will be positive feedback from thegroup and suggestions for further developing yourwork.
Participants on this workshop are also invited toattend Mimi’s reading at Waterstones Nottinghamfor free (please bring proof of course-booking).
Book online or by post. See booking form for details. www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
Special Event Readings at Waterstones NottinghamDavid ConstantineWill read from his latest collections including Elder (Bloodaxe,2014). Saturday 7th February, 5pm
Mimi KhalvatiWill read from her new collection The Weather Wheel (Carcanet,2014). Saturday 14th March, 7pm
Tickets: £5 each – available at Waterstones Nottingham, 1–5 Bridlesmith Gate, Notts, NG1 2GR
PLEASE NOTE: places are limited on these courses, therefore early booking is advisable.
Publishing opportunities: We’ve teamed up with Pewter Rose Press andBrittle Star magazine to offer participants who have attended our courses the opportunityto submit work for consideration. For more information, please see the adverts in theLeicester pages, or visit our website on www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
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STEPHEN BOOTH is a former newspaper journalist and the author of 14 novels in theCooper and Fry series, featuring two young Derbyshire police detectives. His booksare translated into 15 languages and have won accolades on both sides of theAtlantic, including two US awards for Best British Crime Novel of the Year. His mostrecent book is The Corpse Bridge.
WAYNE BURROWS has published three collections of poetry and several sequences,including Marginalia (2001), The Protein Songs (2005) and The Apple Sequence (2011).A Cycle of Songs from the Body’s Interior: New & Selected Poems is set to appear inSummer 2015. His most recent publications are the fiction commissions, SpiritWrappings: Some Notes on the Rashleigh Jackson Family Collection (2012), Marine: AStory in Eight Objects (2013) and Exotica Suite (forthcoming in June 2015). He isbased at Primary in Nottingham.
DAVID CONSTANTINE is a poet and freelance writer and translator, a Fellow of theQueen’s College, Oxford, and was co-editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004to 2013. He has published ten books of poetry, five translations and a novel withBloodaxe. His poetry titles include Something for the Ghosts (2002), which wasshortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Collected Poems (2004), a Poetry BookSociety Recommendation; Nine Fathom Deep (2009); and Elder (2014).
JACQUELINE GABBITAS’ short collections are Mid Lands (Hearing Eye), Earthworksand Small Grass (Stonewood Press) and her poetry has been published in magazinesand anthologies including Poetry Review and The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber). Shehas read her work at The Times Oxford Literary Festival, Poetry on the Lake (Italy) andfor BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. She is co-editor of Brittle Star magazine.
MIMI KHALVATI has published seven collections with Carcanet Press, including TheMeanest Flower which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial TimesBook of the Year and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Her most recent collectionis The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is the founder ofThe Poetry School in London, where she is a tutor. She has received a CholmondeleyAward from the Society of Authors, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
ALISON MOORE’s short fiction has been published in Best British Short Storiesanthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The title story of her debutcollection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, won a New Writer novella prize. Herfirst novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and theNational Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize2013. Her second novel, He Wants, was published in August.
KERRY YOUNG is the author of Pao (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Gloria (Bloomsbury,2013). Pao was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth BookPrize and the East Midlands Book Award. Gloria was shortlisted for the East MidlandsBook Award, longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature andnominated for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is currentlyworking on her third novel. Kerry is a Reader for The Literary Consultancy, a tutor for
the Arvon Foundation and Honorary Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Universityof Nottingham.
“Teaching was great – inspirational, practical, trustworthy.”
