About this Event
Location: Berwick Library, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1DB
Time: 10.30am – 12pm, Saturdays
Date: 13 April 2024 - 18 May 2024
Over the course of six weeks participants will examine different aspects of writing including character, voice, and plot. Our aim will be to develop new skills and to explore old ones, while thinking about what works for each of us as writers - and what doesn't.
Are you a resident of Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland?
This project is supported by funding from North of Tyne Combined Authority. Because of this, please note that we are prioritising residents of Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland. You can use the council website to check if your postcode is in one of these councils: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council.
Please note you may be asked to prove your address.
If the workshop is opened up to people outside of Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland we will update this page.
Have you taken a Start Writing course before?
In order to give everyone a chance to take a Start Writing workshop, we'll be prioritising people who have not taken a course before. If you have taken a Start Writing course before but would still like to attend, please email [email protected] to be added to a waiting list.
About the workshop facilitator:
Jessie Greengrass is the author of two novels: The High House, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize 2021, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 and the Encore Award 2022,
and Sight, was published 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it was published in 2015. It won the Edge Hill Prize 2016, a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Berwick Library, Walkergate, Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom
GBP 35.00
