Creative Writing Classes - Tuesdays and Fridays taught in the cinema

Tuesdays: 9.30am – 11.30am. Starts Tuesday 9th April 2024 (excludes half-term Tuesday 28th May). Final class Tuesday 16th July.

£189.00 for a 14 week term with the option to take up to two weeks off (12 weeks is £162 or 13 weeks is £175.50). Price includes a hot or soft drink. 

You can join at any time if there is space. 

 

Fridays: 9.30am – 11.30am. Starts Friday 12th April 2024 (excludes half-term Friday 31st May). Final class Friday 19th July.

£189.00 for a 14 week term with the option to take up to two weeks off (12 weeks is £162 or 13 weeks is £175.50). Price includes a hot or soft drink. 

You can join at any time if there is space. 

 

Facilitated by Sarah, the creative writing classes are perfect for people wanting to enhance their writing skills or simply have some fun, sculpting their ideas and getting feedback from the rest of the group. Every week Sarah will set a theme for you to explore including places, relationships and memories.  The classes will cover a range of genres of writing and use different materials to help fire your imagination!

From time to time, guest speakers join the group to share their writing experiences.  So far this academic year, we have been very lucky to host the Forward Prize winning poet Liz Berry, the novelist Anouska Knight, screenwriter Evie Fehilly and former Staffordshire Poet Laureate Bert Flitcroft. Last year we had four wonderful guest speakers. The current Staffordshire Poet Laureate Dawn Jutton, the travel writer Jane Wilson-Howarth, founder and editor of the Fawn Press Scarlett Ward Bennett, and former Staffordshire Poet Laureate Emily Rose Galvin.

In December of every year, we print a collection of the group's work.  If you attend the class, you will have the opportunity to be part of this collection should you wish. 

Please bring some paper/notebook and pens/pencils.

Sarah has a Master's Degree in English Language and has had several non-fiction works published. She has been teaching and tutoring English Language and Literature for over twenty years, including eight years’ teaching creative writing.  She is looking forward to running a fun, supportive, interesting group where everyone can join in no matter how nervous you may feel about your abilities.

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Sarah

HAVING ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE BUT HAVING GOT TO AN AGE WHERE I DOUBTED THAT I HAD ANY IMAGINATION LEFT, I WAS RATHER DUBIOUS ABOUT SIGNING UP FOR THE COURSE. BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE WORRIED. SARAH, THE TUTOR, HAS UNLOCKED SOMETHING LURKING WITHIN AND I HAVE STARTED TO WRITE CREATIVELY - IF ONLY TO PLEASE MYSELF SO FAR. THOROUGHLY RECOMMENDED.