The likes of myths and fairytales, legends and classics, are timeless. They are stories we come back to again and again. So how can we, as writers, retell these stories for a contemporary audience?
Award-winning author Sarvat Hasin (The Giant Dark, Strange Girls) will be exploring retellings on the page; how you can approach them and what you can do with them.
Through creative writing exercises and expert advice, she’ll offer her insight into how you can use changes in genre, setting and perspective to place an old story in a new light. Sarvat will answer your questions about how far you can stray from the original, and how to subvert expectations and surprise your reader in a familiar story.
The session will end with a brief Q&A, so come ready with your questions.
The masterclass will take place online via Teams. It will also be recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you'll be able to catch-up and access the recording for up to two weeks after the event has taken place.
Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book You Can’t Go Home Again was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India’s and The Hindu’s best of the year lists. Her third novel The Giant Dark (Dialogue Books, Hachette UK) won the Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. Her fourth novel Strange Girls is coming out this March. She lives in London.
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