Learn the techniques and strategies to develop a quality work of non-fiction
Who is this course for?
- Complete beginners
- Writers who want to delve into a new creative project
- Busy writers looking for a flexible course
What you’ll learn
- How to take the vital first steps in creative non-fiction
- Effective communication - work out who you're writing for and how to pitch it to them
- The art of storytelling in non-fiction
- Techniques to produce really effective dialogue, gripping drama, and to harness your research
- Sensory responses and new ways of being creative with non-fiction
- The fine art of editing and redrafting, and get ideas about how best to pitch your work and put together a professional submission pack
About the course
This creative non-fiction course will help you learn the techniques and strategies to develop a quality work of non-fiction. It provides an insight into the art of writing non-fiction – from life writing and creative non-fiction, to humour and popular reference via journalism and criticism.
The course will focus on how to apply techniques that cover research, interviewing, and create a structure within which to place your writing. There is an inspiring reading list which can provide fertile ground for ideas and examples of the…
This creative non-fiction course will help you learn the techniques and strategies to develop a quality work of non-fiction. It provides an insight into the art of writing non-fiction – from life writing and creative non-fiction, to humour and popular reference via journalism and criticism.
The course will focus on how to apply techniques that cover research, interviewing, and create a structure within which to place your writing. There is an inspiring reading list which can provide fertile ground for ideas and examples of the techniques you will learn. Overall, this course will help you develop, test and really work your ideas, and show you how to hone in on your subject, write your manuscript and nail your pitch.
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Course Content
Lesson Name & What’s Included
Getting Off to a Flying Start
Effective Communication
Making Progress: Moving Things Forward
Making It Real: Sensory Responses
Wrapping Up, and Tying a Nice Bow
Instructor
Sam Jordison
Sam Jordison is a publisher, author and journalist. He is the co-director of the award-winning Galley Beggar Press, publishers of Lucy Ellmann’s ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ and Alex Pheby’s ‘Mordew’. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction titles including the bestselling ‘Crap Towns’ series and ‘Enemies Of The People’, a commentary on the folks who brought us Brexit and Trump. He writes regularly about books for The Guardian, as well as numerous national and international newspapers.
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