Ref: SWE33236
Pre-course preparation
A reading pack of PDFs will be sent to you prior to the course. You can submit 500 words from a work-in-progress to Bethan for feedback during your individual tutorial.
Your usual writing equipment, notebook and pen, and/or laptop.
Arrival day: Friday 6 June
From 4.00-6.30pm - Arrival for residential students
6.45pm - Non-residential students please arrive by 6.45pm for welcome chat and dinner
7.00pm - Dinner
8.00pm–9.00pm - First teaching session – attendance is an essential part of the course.
Saturday 7 June
9.15am - Morning classes start
10.30am - Coffee
11.00am - Morning classes continue
12.45pm - Lunch
2.00pm - Time for writing and tutorials
4.45pm - Class wrap-up
5.00pm - Classes finish
From 7pm - Dinner
8.00pm - Evenings are untutored, for individual work
Departure day: Sunday 8 June(Residential students to vacate rooms by 10am)
9.15am - Morning classes start
10.30am - Coffee
11.00am - Morning classes continue
12.45pm - Lunch
2.00pm - Time for writing and tutorials
3.00pm - Classes finish
3.30pm - Tea then departure
Tutor - Certificate in Fiction Writing
Bethan has published five novels and writes stories and drama for BBC Radio 4. Her books include: The Good Plain Cook (Serpent’s Tail, 2008), which was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime; My Policeman (Chatto & Windus, 2012), the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife and his male lover (a major Amazon Original movie starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin) and Mother Island (Chatto, 2014), which received a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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