Creative Writing

These 10-week programmes encourage the development of cre and working through techniques and approaches to really help develop your writing.

The group nature of the course means that writing can be shared with an audience and wider feedback gained immediately, as well as having more contributions to stimuli and discussions.

There are three courses that can be taken, each one advancing from the previous course:

- Creative Writing: Getting Started

- Creative Writing: Developing your Writing

- Creative Writing: Advanced Writing

The course works through definitions and techniques, key skills, writing exercises, inspiration and ideas for writing, styles of writing, and each week a story is set to be written. There are also extension options if students have more time or would like to undertake more writing.

At the end of the course, you will have a number of pieces of writing you will be proud of, and you will all have the opportunity to have your work published in an anthology professionally printed by Junoberry Books. There will also be an opportunity for you to hone your work outside of sessions and be looked at by tutors.

These 10-week courses are designed to develop the specific skills and techniques that are required for effective scriptwriting and give you the opportunity to write for the stage. A range of stimuli, playtexts, writers and genres are looked at, and most importantly, people will get writing and practice the craft of scriptwriting.

The group nature of the course means that writing can be shared with an audience and wider feedback gained immediately, as well as having more contributions to stimuli and discussions. There is feedback on the writing that is undertaken each week on the course and also opportunities for writers to hone their work outside of sessions and looked at by tutors.

There are three courses that can be taken, each one advancing from the previous course:

- An Introduction to Scriptwriting

- Writing a Play

- Advanced Scriptwriting

At the end of the An Introduction to Scriptwriting course, you will have a number of scenes written for the stage and a clear idea of how to write for the medium. By the end of the Writing a Play course, you will be in a position to write your own play, and the Advanced Scriptwriting course builds on this to ensure you have a fully drafted piece that is good enough to be performed!

These 10-week courses work with you on the specifics of the genre of screenwriting and film, with its focus on being a visual medium and the specific set of rules and approaches that come with that. There is an introduction that works through film as a medium and how writing for screen works, and then further courses that develop writing further into complete screenplays.

The group nature of the course really suits screenwriting, with the concept of breaking story and writer's room a fixture of of writing for the screen. It allows for an audience and wider feedback gained immediately, as well as having more contributions to stimuli and discussions. There is feedback on the writing that is undertaken each week on the course and also opportunities for writers to hone their work outside of sessions and be looked at by coaches.

There are three courses that can be taken, each one advancing from the previous course:

- An Introduction to Screenwriting

- Developing the Screenplay

- Advanced Screenwriting

At the end of the An Introduction to Screenwriting course, you will have a number of film scenes written and a clear idea of how to write for the medium of film. By the end of the Developing the Screenplay course you will be in a position to write your own short film, and the Advanced Screenplay course builds on this and helps develop further screenplays, and possibly the development of a full length film script.

Coming Soon.

A new course, coming in 2024 that focuses on writing adaptations for stage and screen.

There are a number of options where you can work on a one-to-one basis with our tutors for a more personalised approach where the content of sessions will be designed specifically for you and where you are in your creative writing journey. This could be in any medium - prose, scriptwriting, screenwriting or writing for audio, and might involve developing story, working on scripts, refining work, etc.

The one-to-one sessions are bespoke for each writer, and could be taken as a one-off session to share your writing and gain feedback, or as a block of sessions where you will develop your work over a number of weeks.

Whilst we recommend that you undertake group courses, as there are real benefits of sharing your work with others and gaining feedback as well as looking at other people's work, it is possible to undertake any of the Creative Writing courses as an individual course. You will still receive the same feedback from tutors on your work after each session as well as on your final pieces of writing, but you would undertake the course itself solo. The content would be the same as that outlined on these course information pages.

Coming Soon.

A new course, coming in 2024 that focuses on writing for Audio.