Drawing on thirty years of experience as a writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction – sometimes powerfully merging the two – and as a lecturer and tutor, Drusilla Modjeska’s six-week program will explore how to draw on fictional techniques in the creation of vivid characters and stories from the lives of ‘real’ people.

Write your novel, and write it well…

A comprehensive three month course builds on the work started in Writing a Novel: Stage 1 and is suitable for writers who have completed that course, or who have a substantially completed rough or first draft of a novel-in-progress. This course will develop craft and technical skills required to turn a rough draft into a work of art. Using exercises focused on your own work, you’ll finish the course with a deep understanding of the novelists’ craft and how it applies to your own novel.

Are you a new writer for children? This one-day course offers an understanding of what goes on inside a publishing house, how publishers make their choices, how to give yourself the best chance of publication and what to expect from the publishing process.