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Courses Abroad Novel Intensive in Catalonia Write Now! in Portugal
In June a 7-day novel writing course and retreat will be held in an amazing baronial country house in Catalonia with fabulous food, a fiesta and a swimming pool. A course will be held the last weekend in October in Portugal. The venue will be the Holiday Inn Algarve which overlooks a spectacular beach. November will mark a 2-day workshop, "Fiction Masterclass Intensive". This hands-on course will help students to craft their work and begin to see it with new eyes. A second 2012 workshop in collaboration with Alternatives, St James' Church, Piccadilly, is planned for the last weekend in November.
Wondering what special gift you might give to someone who writes or wants to? Why not give a place on one of our upcoming writing courses? There are a wide variety of workshops for all levels of ability, from beginners to published authors. Go to the Gift Certificates page to see what you need to do to delight that special writer in your life.
These pictures were taken during the launch party of The Double Happiness Company at the Free Word Centre in London on 27 January 2011.
Photos: Steve Mullins |
In June 2012 Anne will be leading a 7-day writing retreat in Spain in the countryside outside Girona. This "So You Want to Write a Novel Intensive" has morning workshops, afternoon 1-2-1 tutorials and evening sessions to showcase your work and receive constructive criticism on your writing . . . Read more
Anne's novel, No Angel Hotel, has recently been republished. A 3-minute video trailer and an audio excerpt read by Joyce Greenaway can been found here. You can order it from Amazon. It is also available for your Kindle: UK or US. As of 2010, novelists (or short story writers working towards a collection) have the opportunity to submit a chapter (or story) at Anne's discretion for a one-page critique by the Christine Green literary agency. To be eligible, students must be enrolled in a CWC workshop and have manuscripts at an advanced stage of development.
“I don’t use a typewriter. I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially, I’m a horizontal writer. I think better lying down.” Truman Capote
Anthea Norman-Taylor is hosting a mini-festival of Russian literature and film weekends in Oxfordshire in May and June 2012. Speakers include the distinguished translator of Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett, and Boris Pasternak's nephew and translator, Nicholas Pasternak Slater. More good news from Lezanne Clannachan who, in March 2012, heard that she won First Prize in The New Writer Prose Prize of 2011 with her short story, "Burial". Félicitations, girl! Aimee Hansen has just had a feature travel article "How much can you steal in 30 seconds?" published on Matador. A great read.
Clare Jacob's debut novel, Ophelia in Pieces, was published in March. Congratulations, Clare! |
Anne Aylor is a professional writer and teacher who has had short stories and poems published by the Arts Council of Great Britain, The Literary Review, London Magazine and Stand Magazine. Her first novel, No Angel Hotel, was republished in February 2012. Her second novel, The Double Happiness Company, was published in January 2011. She is 90,000 words into her third and is working on a fourth. In addition to being a runner-up in a Radio 3 competition, a number of her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio. In 2008 she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Fish Short Story Prize. Her stage play, Children of the Dust, won a playwrighting competition and was co-produced by the Soho Theatre and Theatre Warehouse, Croydon. She worked in post-war Bosnia where she practised Chinese medicine and taught ballet. She teaches ballet at Morley College in London and is a member of PEN. In 2007 she was a shortlist judge for the story competition held by the Wimbledon Book Fest and in 2011 she was the judge in the Peter Barry Short Story Competition. If you'd like to see a sample of her work, you can read a 500-word short story, or listen to her poem, Weather Report.
In novels and motion pictures a flashback is a narrative technique to interrupt the chronology of the story to cut away to something that has happened in the past. The flashback technique is as old as Western literature. In The Odyssey, most of the adventures that blighted Odysseus' return journey from Troy are told in flashback . . . Read more
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. character he or she can root for. something, even if it is only a glass of water. of two things—reveal character or advance the action. possible. sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of. person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete under- standing of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story them- selves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. Kurt Vonnegut |
