Writing From Life is a twelve week online course using the online platforms Zoom and Slack Each participant will get feedback on a piece of work from the tutor.
We will look at how to use real life experience to inspire compelling writing. We will look at various forms of creative non-fiction, including memoir, biography and autobiography, travel and food writing, nature and place writing and writing online. We will also look at using real life to create fiction. We will consider themes such as structure, point of view and showing and telling as well as concepts such as psychogeography and phenomenology.
The course will consist of 12 taught sessions on Zoom. There will be some reading for each session as well as suggested exercises. There will be a discussion forum on Slack where you will be invited to share work with your peers and discuss the weekly themes.
At the end of the course you will be invited to submit a piece of work for feedback from the tutor. Each student will have a one-one tutorial in the second half of the course in which they can discuss their plans for this piece of work.
Zooms sessions Monday evening 7pm-9pm
First session Monday 13 January,
Last session Monday 7 April
Half term Monday 24 February
Weekly themes:
Week One Introduction
Week Two Autobiography
Week Three Memoir
Week Four Autofiction
Week Five Biography
Week Six Journeys and pilgrimage
Half Term
Week Seven Place writing and psychogeography
Week Eight Nature writing and phenomenology
Week Nine Travel writing
Week Ten Food writing
Week Eleven Our online selves
Week Twelve Essay writing
The cost of the course is £250/ £175 concession
Please contact me at info@annachilvers.co.uk for more information or to book a place, or book at Eventbrite here