Saturday 13^th April 2024 - Bethnal Green, London

Crafting Concise Worlds: A Short Story & Flash Fiction Workshop

 

Short Stories and Flash Fiction are where a writer learns their writing chops.

 

In a day of interactive workshops, author, editor, creative writing tutor and Writing Magazine columnist, Ian Ayris, will be running a workshop on Short Fiction, including how to get ideas using Free Writing, and an opportunity to write a First Draft of one of those ideas.

 

A second workshop on Editing will follow, plus an opportunity to edit your First Draft. The aim is, by the end of the day, for all attendees to have the core of a submissible piece of fiction

 

To secure your place for as little as £39 click here

 

 

Saturday 20^th April 2024 - Bath Library, Bath

Creative Non-Fiction: True Stories Well Told

 

Creative non-fiction can be any length and take many forms including memoir and biography, personal essay and narrative poetry; what defines it isn’t its form but its relationship with truth. Non-fiction means it must be based on facts, so the ‘creative’ part doesn’t mean being creative with the truth but using creative techniques to craft engaging and meaningful stories out of it.

This workshop is an opportunity to think about the choice of narratives you might use to tell your own stories or other people’s and to look at how techniques such as dialogue, plotting and characterisation can help you tell a great story whilst still remaining truthful to the facts.

To secure your place for as little as £39 click here

 

 

Saturday 11^th and Sunday 12^th May 2024 - The Guildhall, York

SPRING HAUNTS

Come join us in a haunted city for a weekend of horror, gothic and ghost story writing!

Following on from the success of the annual Winter Haunts virtual event, Spring Haunts come to York for an in-person writing weekend packed with workshops, feedback sessions, guest authors and more! If you're looking to develop your dark fiction writing further, looking to learn new skills in the field or seeking inspiration from fellow authors, then this could be the weekend for you.

The event will be facilitated by lecturer, workshopper and Writing Magazine regular contributor Alex Davis.
 

To secure your space  click here