Do you have a writing project you want to get over the finish line in 2025?
This course is designed for writers looking to deepen their craft and bring their creative vision to fruition. Building on your foundational skills, it offers a more in-depth exploration of narrative techniques, providing the tools and inspiration needed to complete a polished short story, a collection of stories, or even a novel.
Through a blend of engaging lessons, interactive exercises, and practical assignments, you’ll refine your approach to character development, master the intricacies of plot structure, and experiment with diverse points of view and narrative styles. Discover a sense of play and adventure in your writing while making meaningful progress on your work.
With personalised, one-to-one feedback from an experienced tutor, you’ll receive specific, actionable advice tailored to your goals. By the end of the course, you’ll have a polished final draft of a short story, and the confidence and skills to continue writing fiction.
This course will cover…
- Idea generation and maintaining a writer’s journal
- Practical tips for finding writing time and starting longer pieces
- Character types and how to craft compelling dialogue.
- The influence of perspective and setting on narrative; experimenting with different points of view.
- How to make the familiar strange
- Narrative structures and their cultural significance
- Reflecting on and developing your personal style
- Rewriting and self-editing techniques, including differentiating between structural and line edits
Spanning 18 weeks, this course is perfect for writers with some experience who are ready to commit to a longer-term, in-depth period of study. Designed for those already maintaining a writing practice, it’s ideal if you’re engaged in a longer project such as a short story collection or novel. Your tutor, Megan Bradbury, will review up to 7,000 words of your writing. Towards the course’s conclusion, you will have a one-to-one tutorial with her to discuss your work and explore your next steps as a writer.
Megan Bradbury is a British writer, tutor, and mentor, and author of the critically acclaimed novel, Everyone is Watching (Picador, 2016). Described as a ‘beating heart of a novel’ by Ali Smith and ‘kaleidoscopic’ by Eimear McBride, the novel was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and was listed as one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. Bradbury is a graduate of the Creative Writing Prose Masters programme at the University of East Anglia, and has been awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship, an Author’s Foundation award, and numerous grants from Arts Council England. She has written for the Irish Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She is also an experienced artistic collaborator and a previous recipient of the Escalator Literature Prize. www.meganbradbury.com
