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SUMMARY:Faber Academy: Writing for Children (12 Weeks\, Evening Sessions)
DESCRIPTION:Kickstart your path to writing your first novel for younger readers in our Newcastle Writing for Children course. \nLed by Faber author Chloe Daykin\, you’ll build all the core skills needed to write stories for children in this wide-ranging\, adventurous course. \nCovering fiction for children aged six to twelve (with a little experimentation beyond)\, you’ll benefit from everything Chloe knows about this difficult craft – worlds that keep kids immersed\, dialogue that convinces them\, humour that gets giggles and more. \nYou’ll be joined by like-minded writers on your creative journey\, as well as benefiting from masterclasses and talks from guest authors. \nThe course will take place on Thursday evenings\, from 7–9 p.m. at The Common Room\, in the heart of Newcastle city centre. \nCourse Programme can be found on the course page here
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LOCATION:The Common Room\, Westgate Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Faber Academy: Writing Day with Jessica Andrews
DESCRIPTION:How can we render the pain\, joy and expectations of our bodies in the world? How can we translate our physical experiences in language which will resonate with readers? \nIn this one-day masterclass on writing the body\, novelist Jessica Andrews will guide you through a series of close readings\, generative exercises and discussions to reimagine how you might write about the body. \nThe day will end with a Q&A with Jessica about her writing life and career as a novelist. \nWhether you are a novelist\, short-story writer\, memoirist\, essayist\, poet – or a combination of these – this workshop will help you create compelling writing through an examination of sensory evocation\, narrative action\, tone\, and structure\, across both fiction and non-fiction. \nSchedule\nThis course takes place over a full Saturday\, at The Common Room in Newcastle city centre. \n10.00–11.25\nWhat is\nembodied writing?\nWe will look at a brief history of embodied writing and put together a working definition which will inform our own writing going forwards. We will read and discuss representations of the body in literature and there will be guided exercises to try out some new techniques. \n11.25–11.35\nBreak\n11:35–13.00\nAction\, physicality\nand emotion\nWe will consider the role of action\, physicality and emotion in representing embodied experience. We will read and discuss the work of writers who do this in different ways and there will be guided writing exercises to try out some of these ideas in our own work. \n13:00–14.00\nLunch\n14:00–15.00\nFormal and linguistic experiment\nWe will look at the ways in which different writers experiment with form\, language and style to convey bodily experience. We will look at some examples of this and push the formal and stylistic boundaries of our own work through writing exercises. \n15:00–16.00\nSharing ideas\, work and Q&A\nAt the end of the day\, there will be time to share work and discuss ideas\, and an opportunity to ask Jessica questions about her own writing practice and journey.
URL:https://thecommonroom.org.uk/event/faber-academy-writing-day-with-jessica-andrews/
LOCATION:The Common Room\, Westgate Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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