TUTOR: Kerry Hadley-Pryce has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country (Michael Schmidt Prize); Gamble (shortlisted for The Encore Award) and God’s Country. Her fourth novel, Lie of the Land, is due for publication by Salt Publishing in 2025. She has a PhD in creative writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, teaches creative writing, and has contributed to Palgrave’s Smell, Memory & Literature in the Black Country anthology. She has had short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator and read by Brum Radio.
Start Date: 8th October, 2024
Duration: Six weeks
Price: €170
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Welcome to the Intermediate Creative Writing Course: Unleash Your Narrative Potential
Are you prepared to elevate your creative writing abilities? Our online Intermediate Creative Writing Course presents an ideal opportunity for writers with prior experience or those who have successfully completed our Beginner’s Writing Course. It’s the next step to refine and cultivate your craft.
Tailored Guidance from Committed Instructors
Our skilled instructors are eager to provide you with personalised feedback every week. By submitting your work for review, you’ll gain invaluable insights and direction to enhance your writing.
Global Reach & Lifetime Access to Course Materials
Our courses are accessible to aspiring writers worldwide. Furthermore, you’ll retain lifelong access to all course materials once the course concludes, allowing you to revisit lessons whenever you need a refresher.
High Demand & Early Enrolment
Given the high demand for our Intermediate Creative Writing Course, we strongly recommend early enrolment to secure your spot. Seize this opportunity to sharpen your writing skills and unleash your storytelling potential.
Course Overview
This six-week online course offers an engaging and adaptable learning experience designed to accommodate busy schedules. With no fixed class times, you can progress through weekly text-based modules at your own pace, dedicating 2-3 hours each week to nurture your writing expertise.
Each week, you’ll delve into new subjects, exploring more intricate aspects of creative writing. Through interactive exercises, you’ll enhance your fiction writing and expand your storytelling toolkit.
What to Anticipate Week by Week
Week 1: Character & Story Structure
Building on some of the warm-up exercises and character-building techniques you might have used in earlier courses, this module introduces ideas about character and empathy even further by considering how questions of conflict and ‘what if?’ can develop your characters and lead to a satisfying resolution for your reader.
Week 2: Time & Pace
This module explores the different aspects of ‘time’ in a short story or a novel. It considers how techniques such as creating a timeline, flashbacks and flash-forwards work in a narrative, and how, in any narrative, time is a crucial and complex factor.
Week 3: Juxtapositioning
What happens if we bring together two or more often disparate ideas or images? Here in this module, we look at how this kind of ‘splicing’ can bring a story to life, and how playing with connections and clashes sparks and develops narrative ideas.
Week 4: Editing and Flash Fiction
This week’s module tackles what to cut and what to keep. Revisiting and re-writing is an important part of the writers’ craft, and perfecting the skill of ‘flash’ fiction is an excellent way of fighting back the urge to overdo description, and to recognise the power and effect of the short narrative.
Week 5: The Museum of Emotion
The importance of engaging emotionally with readers cannot be overstated. A. L. Kennedy said: ‘Fictional characters whose interior lives don’t hum and gurgle with this or that emotional tone can’t be expected to compete with the genuine and complex human beings against whom they are constantly being measured.’ This module will explore how we can integrate our emotions and all of our senses into our writing to create original narratives.
Week 6: Symbolism and Suspense
Literary symbolism can create different and sometimes ambiguous meanings. Taking your writing to another level, this module encourages you to take chances with your use of language, and to experiment with new ideas to find not just your ‘voice’ , but the many ‘voices’ you might have.
Come Along!
Embark on this creative journey and uncover the writer within you. Register now for our Intermediate Creative Writing Course and let your imagination take flight!