Novel Writing

The Bigger Picture

This course will focus on overall structure and theme, and will look in a more detailed way at improving style and pace through redrafting. It will also tackle the neglected area of dialogue. Brief samples of first drafts, and an outline of the story, would be welcome.

 

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Start Date:
Monday, 12th October 2009

End Date:
Saturday, 17th October 2009
Tutors
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Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe has published two volumes of short stories, Shifts and Is This The Way You Said? In 2008 he was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Award. His novels include Ulverton and HODD.

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Susannah Waters

Susannah Waters is a playwright, director, and novelist. Her first novel, Long Gone Anybody (Black Swan) was nominated for the Pendleton May first novel award, and her second novel, Cold Comfort, is published by Doubleday.

Guest
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Michele Roberts

Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve novels, the most recent of which is Delusion. She’s been short-listed for the Booker Prize, and won the WH Smith Literary Award.

This course is based at:

Lumb Bank - The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre

Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DF

Tel: 01422 843714
Fax: 01422 843714
Email: lumbbank@arvonfoundation.org
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