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SUMMARY:Writers' Workshop Course with Trevor Byrne
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for feedback on your writing?
Are you keen to become a more analytical reader?
Are you eager to spend time discussing your work with others; developing your writer’s toolkit alongside a group of like-minded peers?
If so\, the Raw Writing Writers Workshop might be right for you! \nOver this six-week course\, you will have the opportunity to present your work for feedback\, while also analysing the writing of your peers. Cultivating the ability to read closely the work of others and give thoughtful\, considered feedback is an essential skill for any aspiring writer. On the Writers’ Workshop\, we will help you hone this skill; bringing the strengths you take from reading the work of others to your own projects. \nAs part of the Writers Workshop\, you will have the opportunity to share up to 2\,500 words from your current writing project twice with the group.
Each time you submit\, you will have 45 minutes dedicated to discussing the fundamental aspects of your submission: \n\nPlot\nCharacterisation\nVoice\nDialogue\n⁠Description\n+ Point-of-view\n\nIt is frustratingly easy to allow life’s myriad wants and needs to interfere with our writing ambitions. By joining this course\, we hope you will be able to gift yourself the permission to write and to read. At Raw Writing\, you will be joining a team of dynamic creatives; each eager to share their story with a group of like-minded individuals. \n  \nWednesdays 19.00-20.30 \n17th\, 24th\, June\, 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, 22nd July \nOnline on Zoom \n£270 (Payable in two instalments of £135. Please email carla@rawwriting.co.uk to arrange)
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/writers-workshop-course-with-trevor-byrne/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Playwriting
DESCRIPTION:This exciting six-week course gives writers the opportunity to learn different approaches to playwriting whilst preparing their own short play\, which will be performed by actors at the Exeter Barnfield Theatre on the evening of the final week (details to be confirmed). \nSession Dates\nWednesdays\, 2pm – 4pm \nWed 14 Jan\nWed 21 Jan\nWed 28 Jan\nWed 04 Feb\nWed 11 Feb\nTBC
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/introduction-to-playwriting/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Have you got an idea for a Film\, TV drama or animation? \nHave you ever wondered how TV dramas get made and what goes into distilling drama into compelling\, revealing moments? \nIf you’re curious and would like to explore some of the key elements to writing drama for the screen\, then sign up for this Introduction to Screenwriting course. \nI’ll cover structure\, character\, dialogue and plot twists and get you started with fun and creative exercises. \nWe’ll look at the plethora of amazing TV that’s out there and dig into close readings of scripts to see how and why they’re working. \nStories are for everyone and never is that truer than in TV. If you have an interest in any of the above\, I’d love to work with you and help develop your ideas! \n\nClare Sumi is a British Japanese scriptwriter for TV & Film. As a core writer for Hollyoaks for two years\, she wrote multiple episodes. She was also a finalist in Film London’s Microwave with her film Glowed Up. It went on to be awarded two rounds of BFI Development Funding and is currently under option with Grama Films. Her work has also been featured on the stage as part of a series of shorts for Dim Sum Nights by New Earth Theatre. This won the Audience Choice award and toured nationally across the UK. She’s an alumnus of the Royal Court Studio Group & Unheard Voices Programme. Prior to this she worked for nearly a decade in Kids & Family Entertainment. As Lead Creative for KidZania London\, she led the activity design and fitout of a three-quarter sized city for kids. She’s also been a creative consultant for Wonderbly. Clare studied English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia\, and received a distinction in MA Text and Performance from Kings College and RADA \n  \n\nFridays 10.30-12 \n19th\, 26th September\, \n3rd\, 10th\, 17th\, 24th Oct \nZoom
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/introduction-to-screenwriting/
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SUMMARY:Writing Sci-fi\, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:With Nick Hunt\, author of Red Smoking Mirror\, Outlandish and Where the Wild Winds Are  \nThis course is an introduction to writing imaginative and speculative fiction – from sci-fi and fantasy to alternate history. You will learn techniques for world-building and peopling different realities; imagining utopias\, dystopias and possible futures; how to write strong characters and structure your storyline; and how to make the worlds you create vivid and alive. \nFollowing in the footsteps of writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood\, we will examine how speculative writing plays a deeply subversive role\, destabilising ‘the way things are’ and allowing our imagination to break free of its bindings. Imagining different pasts\, and futures\, enables different presents. \nThe course will combine teaching and reading – with inspirations ranging from China Miéville\, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Octavia E. Butler to Alan Garner and William Golding – with writing exercises\, group discussions\, feedback and structured writing time. By the end of the six weeks\, you will have completed a solid beginning to a new story\, or deepened and expanded a work already in progress. Whether you are a published author or a curious beginner\, all you need is something to write on and your imagination. \nNick Hunt is the author of Red Smoking Mirror (Swift Press\, 2021)\, an alternate history set in 16th-century Mexico\, which was a finalist for the Edward Stanford Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place. His non-fiction books include Outlandish\, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water. \nHe has taught writing courses at the Arvon Foundation\, the University of Bristol\, Schumacher College and other institutions. He also works as an editor and a writing mentor. In September 2025 he will start a two-year placement as a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Bristol. \nThursdays \n18th\, 25th Sept\, \n2nd\, 9th\, 16th\, 23rd Oct \n19.00-20.30 \nZoom
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SUMMARY:Myths and Legends
DESCRIPTION:Myths and legends are the stories that every other story is made of. At the core of each of the great and enduring stories of the past is a vibrant\, timeless and human story. They are our oldest stories\, dealing with our deepest concerns. But how can we make use of these ancient stories in our own fiction? \nThis course will show students how the epic struggles of heroes like Odysseus\, the complicated plights of monsters like Grendel\, and the ingenious scheming of tricksters like Loki have an important place in\, and can deepen and enrich\, the stories we tell today. It will help us look past the didactic intent and the rigid-seeming and ‘foreign’ structures of the original tales\, with a view to inspiring participants to create full-blooded\, timeless modern fiction of their own.   \nThis six-week course will be a mix of reading and writing\, of in-class workshops and open discussions. We’ll look at the old stories themselves in their original form – from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey to Ireland’s The Táin and The Mabinogion of Wales – and at modern fiction that echoes\, reinterprets or subverts the old tales\, including work by Steven Sherrill\, Desmond Barry\, Ali Smith\, Niall Griffiths\, and others. No previous expertise in mythology of any kind is necessary to get involved – the utility of mythic storytelling is itself universal\, and all are welcome. But equally\, any participants with a special interest or expertise are encouraged to introduce others to the myths of their own culture\, or to those they simply hold dear. \nMost importantly\, we will tell stories of our own. To help us along the way\, we’ll look at\, for example\, how the infamous creature described as ‘part man\, part bull’ by the Roman poet Ovid\, who killed and ate the young men and women of Crete\, is treated in Steven Sherrill’s 2004 novel\, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. In Sherril’s story\, the minotaur (still alive and now known simply as ‘M’) is ‘working as a line chef at Grub’s Rib in North Carolina\, keeping to himself\, keeping his horns down\, trying in vain to put his past behind him’. It’s a fascinating tale. But in your own story\, you might reimagine the gorgons of ancient Greece as three sisters in working-class Liverpool\, jealous of their celebrity sister Medusa\, or recast the Morrígan – Irish goddess of war and fate – as a scammer making manipulative predictions on TikTok. Or anything else that strikes your fancy. Sometimes\, it will be as subtle as finding a useful echo between some put-upon character in your story (a young man just out of jail working overtime at Burger King) and Atlas\, the giant who held up the earth itself… \nThis course is suitable for writers of any experience level\, from beginners to veterans. All that’s required is an interest in the stories that lie beneath\, the stories that make our own stories possible. \nBy the end of this six-week course\, you’ll have a better understanding of the old tales\, and will have completed your own short story – your own muscular\, vivid and compelling modern myth. \nTrevor’s debut novel\, Ghosts & Lightning\, was published to international critical acclaim\, and was selected as a Book of the Year in the Guardian and the Irish Times. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies\, journals and magazines\, including Silver Threads of Hope and the Dublin Review (‘Mad For the Rain’\, which was also shortlisted for the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Prize). His story ‘Go Down Sunday’ was shortlisted for the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award. \nHe studied History and Classical Civilisations at Trinity College\, Dublin\, and English at the University of South Wales. He has led CW workshops and taught for Arvon\, Faber Academy and the Irish Writers’ Centre\, and was a Writer in Residence at the University of Manchester. \n\n  \nWednesdays \n17th\, 24th September\, \n1st\, 8th\, 15th\, 22nd October \n19.00-20.30 \nZoom \n\n 
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