TUTOR: Kerry Hadley-Pryce has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country (Michael Schmidt Prize); Gamble (shortlisted for The Encore Award) and God’s Country. Her fourth novel, Lie of the Land, is due for publication by Salt Publishing in 2025. She has a PhD in creative writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, teaches creative writing, and has contributed to Palgrave’s Smell, Memory & Literature in the Black Country anthology. She has had short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator and read by Brum Radio.

Start Date: 8th October, 2024
Duration: Six weeks
Fee: $299
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Course Outline

Module 1: The Creative Process

We’ll learn how to lose our inner perfectionist and practise some techniques to free up our writing muscles.

Module 2: Character Creation

How might you find and develop your characters? We’ll look at a variety of approaches to this.

Module 3: Showing and Telling

‘Show, don’t tell’. Let’s look at what this means in your writing, and let’s experiment with both.

Module 4: Setting

We’ll explore the effect of setting and its interaction with emotion, character and plot.

Module 5: Point of View

Whose story is this? This week, let’s look at the range of possibilities there are, and how this can strengthen your confidence as a writer and help you find your voice.

Module 6: Structure

In this, the final week, we’ll examine how narrative can be arranged to create tension and keep your reader reading.