TV Drama, New Media and Memoir
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Masterclass: (Two-day workshops.) Deal – Take two for £150 –
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Writing for the
Small Screen
Masterclass with Jonathan Myerson
Saturday 25th/Sunday 26th
October
What will makes good television drama, and how can you get those
execs to read your work? Television isn’t just films made smaller –
it has its own rhythm and makes its own special demands. This
course will cover the basics of writing for the small screen as
well as bringing you up to speed on how the industry works.
About Jonathan Myerson
Jonathan Myerson has written for many television series,
including EastEnders, The Bill, Medics
and Holby City. He is currently working on a
television version of his Trollope update, The Way We Live
Right Now. His animated film, BAFTA and EMMY award
winningThe Canterbury Tales was also nominated for an
Oscar. He has written over 30 original plays for radio including
Doctor Zhivago and two series of Number 10, (all
BBC Radio 4) and two novels; Noise andYour
Father.
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10.00am-5.00pm
£100 (70 concession)
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Writing and New
Media
Day Course with Kate Pullinger
Saturday 01st
November
In a world of rapid technological change, writers have much to
gain from the digital world, and this Daycourse will be an
opportunity to look at the potential and to discuss ways of tapping
into it. The internet has created an avalanche of platforms for
writing and reading online, from blogs to wikis, Twitter to
Facebook. In the session you will analyse a range of works
created specifically for digital platforms, and look at ways of
building your audience through social networking applications and
blogs.
About Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger works both in print and new media. Her most
recent work includes novels Weird Sister andThe
Last Time I Saw Jane; the short story collections My Life
as a Girl in a Men’s Prison andTiny
Lies and digital fiction projects such as the
multiple award-winning Inanimate Alice (www.inanimatealice.com),
Flight Paths (www.flightpaths.net) and a novela
game for female casual gamersVenus Redemption (www.storygamer.com). Kate
Pullinger is also involved in developing fiction for mobile phones,
and is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort
University where she teaches on the online MA in Creative Writing
and New Media.
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10.00am-5.00pm
£60 (40 concession)
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Turning Life into
Prose
Masterclass with Ian Marchant
Saturday 01st/Sunday 02nd
November
Capture your own experiences and turn them into memoirs, essays
and travel writing. Creative non-fiction is a growing and
challenging sphere of literature. Through a series of ‘block
building’ exercises the course will help you begin to craft real
events into stories, fashion memories into scenes and shape
characters on the page. You will also look at how to evoke a sense
of time and place and how to take all the skill of a fiction writer
to create a strong and compelling narrative.
About Ian Marchant
Ian Marchant has written two novels, In Southern Waters
and The Battle for Dole Acre. He has run a second-hand
bookshop, and is a comedian, singer song-writer and cabaret
performer. Published in July 2003, his first work of non-fiction
Parallel Lines takes a microscope to the strange and
glorious history of the British railway.
His latest book, The Longest Crawl, is a uniquely
British story, revealing how our history, culture and lives are
deeply intertwined with the joys and demons of drink.
Praise for The Longest Crawl: ‘Drunkenly funny,
obsessively factual, soberingly poignant.’ Simon Armitage
‘This book is funny, clever, informative and as sound as a pound
… buy this man a pint, somebody!’ Lynne Truss
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10.00am-5.00pm
£100 (70 concession)
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