Creative Writing - Fireside Stories - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Tue Nov 05 2024 at 06:00 pm to Tue Dec 10 2024 at 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

Arnold Library | Nottingham

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Creative Writing - Fireside Stories - Arnold Library - Adult Learning
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Key details
  • Date: 5 November - 10 December 2024
  • Sessions: Tuesdays: 6pm - 8pm
  • No. sessions: 6
  • Venue: Arnold Library, Nottingham
  • For ages: 19+
  • Group size: 5 - 15
  • Cost: FREE - £42


About this course

During this course, we will explore atmospheric stories told around a fire, looking at the origins and development, and create our own fireside stories. We will look at different genres of writing (including traditional fairy tales and ghost and horror writing) and analyse how tension is created and maintained.

By the end of the course, you will be able:
- To recall information about the origins of traditional stories

- To discuss key ideas/ concepts

- To demonstrate learning through short exercises

- To criticise published work / identify techniques

- To evaluate peers’ work and offer feedback

- To create a piece of writing, appropriate for reading out around a fire


As this course is online, a suitable device such as laptop, smart phone, tablet or computer will be required to access the course. The link for you to join the live sessions will be sent to you once your enrolment has been completed.

You will need a pen and paper (or laptop if you prefer to participate in this course.

Suggested reading list:

- The Woman in Black: Susan Hill

- The Bloody Chamber: Angela Carter

- The Turn of the Screw: Henry James

- Any tales by Edgar Allen Poe


Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.


You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:


  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire


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Arnold Library, Front Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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