Ty Newydd Course Brochure - Literature Wales

May 28 - June 2
5. wRITING A BOOK:
FICTION AND AuTOBIOGRAPHy
ExTENdEd COURsE - fOR WOmEN
Patricia Duncker and Janet Thomas
Guest: Lindsay Ashford
Are you writing a book? This course is for writers working on
a full-length book: fiction in all genres, for adults or children,
autobiography, memoir or travel. Have you finished a draft?
Are you stuck? Or have you written short fiction up till now and
you are now beginning to write a full-length novel? we are
here to help with structure, plot, viewpoint, description, and all
the technical details. Participants will be selected.*
* Details of the selection procedure and how an extended course works can be
obtained from our website or directly from Ty ˆ Newydd
Supported by Honno, the Welsh Women’s Press
Patricia Duncker is the author of Hallucinating Foucault (winner of
the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996),
The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry and Miss Webster and
Chérif (shortlisted for the Commonwealth writers’ Prize in 2007).
She has written two books of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana’s
Lemon Trees (shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award in
1997) and Seven Tales of Sex and Death, and a collection of essays
on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall.
Janet Thomas is an experienced freelance editor who works for a
range of publishers in wales and London, working on fiction, nonfiction
and children’s books. She was Honno Editor and has been
on the Honno Management Committee for the last eight years.
She has also had short fiction published and her children’s book
Can I Play? (Egmont) won a Practial Pre-School gold award.
Honno Welsh Women’s Press: 2012 marks 25 years since the
publication of Honno’s first book. From four friends sitting around a kitchen
table to the UK’s only surviving independent women’s press, Honno has
gone from strength to strength. Taking part in this course goes to the heart
of Honno’s aims: to develop writing talent and to give fresh new voices the
opportunity to see their work published. www.honno.co.uk
Fee: £620 (single room) / £540 (shared room)
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