This next passage in my series is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir,…
Category: Writing Workshop
This is my second post for writers on the topic of the first person ‘I’ in creative nonfiction and memoir.
One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.
Over my many years of teaching creative writing I’ve written a great deal for students…
I declare the ‘writer’s garret’ a myth. By which I mean that the image of…
This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…
This is an intensive set of workshops to encourage a regular writing practice, with each participant submitting 500-2000 words (or equivalent for poetry) fortnightly, for feedback and discussion.
The novel manuscript’s needs are great, and constant. Novels are anti-social creatures that don’t want…
A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.