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Course 2
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION Cancelled
April 7-12 • Aminatta Forna and Ian Marchant
Guest: Robert Minhinnick
Residential: £480 (single)  £420 (shared) 

Turn life into prose. 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 find out how to begin to craft  real events into stories, fashion memories into scenes, shape characters on the page, 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. For writers of all levels.



 

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AMINATTA FORNA
is the author of The Devil that Danced on the Water (HarperCollins), a memoir of her country and her dissident father which was runner up for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her novel  Ancestor Stones (Bloomsbury in 2006) won the Hurston Wright Award for Debut Fiction.  www.aminattaforna.com


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IAN MARCHANT
is a writer of non-fiction and novels and a performer. His latest book is The Longest Crawl which was published by Bloomsbury in 2006.

www.ianmarchant.com

 

 

 

Guest: Robert Minhinnick

Essayist, poet and environmental campaigner. He has published two collections of essays: Watching the Fire Eater (Seren,1992), which won the 1993 Wales Book of the Year Award, and Badlands(Seren, 1996). His book, To Babel and Back, won the 2006 Wales Book of the Year Award.

 
Residential: £480 (single) - deposit of £100 will be taken
Residential: £420 (shared) - deposit of £100 will be taken
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