Weekend courses
We teach the following weekend courses globally as well as extended five day summer schools in advanced courses. Check back for updates on our summer writing programmes.
New Writers: How to Begin
Cathie Dunsford, PhD
2 sessions, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 5pm
If you have unfinished short stories, notes, poems, novels in any genre but need feedback, support, new techniques to feed you vision, then come along. We’ll concentrate on writing exercises to brush up your techniques, talk about how to structure your work and time and how to get published (directory provided). All this within a supportive and constructive framework. Limited to 12 participants
Recommended Reading
- Cameron, Julia: The artist’s way
- A spiritual path to higher creativity. London: Pan, 1995.
- Cameron, Julia: The right to write
- An invitation and initiation into the writing life. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, c1998.
- Grenville, Kate: The writing book
- A workbook for fiction writers. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990.
- Cathie Dunsford: Getting Published, The Inside Story
- Global Dialogues Press, Frankfurt, 2003.
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Exploding into Print: How to Get Published
Cathie Dunsford, PhD
2 sessions, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 5pm
We’ll workshop your writing in detail, provide editorial advice and help prepare your work to publication standard. You’ll learn how to approach publishers professionally and get a reply within three weeks or get the agent you want to handle your work. You’ll get information on contracts, copyright, film, internet, TV and all media rights. Writers attending receive a free professional manuscript reading after the course. Limited to 12 participants
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Writing the Novel: From Conception to Climax
Cathie Dunsford, PhD
2 sessions, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm
Many writers are brimming with ideas for novels but get stuck planning, structuring, writing and editing their first novels. We will discuss and solve any of your problems. Please bring along ideas, synopsis and any work written and we will workshop in class. You will learn how to plan, structure, write and edit your novel, get help along the way and find a publisher at the end. A Publishing Directory will be provided. Limited to 12 participants Recommended Reading [as above]
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Too Many Ideas and No Time to Write
Karin Meissenburg, PhD
2 sessions, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm
In this course we will work from the incubation of an idea to structuring your work. You will learn how to budget your time, whether you have all the time to write or have to squeeze it into a packed workday. We begin by brainstorming your ideas, structuring and applying the techniques learnt, and will devote time to exploring and expanding projects you have in mind. The tutor will also work individually with each student on his/her project, finding the best ways to develop it from idea to actualisation. You will be given encouragement to adapt techniques to suit your own style and subject matter in a friendly but hardworking environment. Limited to 12 participants
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Expression Unlimited: Locating and Exploring Your Individual Approach to Writing
Karin Meissenburg, PhD
2 sessions, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm
Have you ever wondered how your specific project will fit into received categories, genres? Have you asked yourself, whether it was appropriate to use words, styles, modes in a given writing context? Can one explode the boundaries of literary and stylistic ’have to’s ‘ without getting into an unreadable hodgepodge? Why not experiment with form? Let the ideas tell you which way to go. Bring along your projects from business reports to University papers to essays to stories to novels to poems. Or bring simply your ideas which have not yet found a home. Come and discover what is your unique style — we can all contribute to letting your individual writing gifts manifest themselves. Limited to 12 participants
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