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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