Creative Writing - Investigating Genre - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Schedule

Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 01 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Arnold Library | Nottingham, EN

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About this Event

Key details
  • Date: 25 February - 1 April 2025
  • Sessions: Tuesdays: 6pm - 8pm
  • No. sessions: 6
  • Venue: Arnold Library, Nottingham
  • For ages: 19+
  • Group size: 5 - 15
  • Cost: FREE - £42



About this course

Look at different genres of writing through examining published work and taking part in writing exercises


What will be covered on the course?

  • Science Fiction
  • The Wild West
  • Mystery
  • Fantasy
  • Coming-of-age
  • Historical


What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

  • To recall key writing terms
  • To recognise different elements of individual genres
  • To demonstrate understanding through short writing exercises in different genres/ styles
  • To examine techniques used in published works
  • To evaluate others’ work through peer feedback
  • To create individual piece of extended writing


Suggested Reading for the course -

It would be useful to read on book for each genre:

The Wild West:

  • No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy
  • All the Pretty Horses: Cormac McCarthy
  • True Grit: Charles Portis

Fantasy:

  • The Buried Giant: Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Night Circus: Erin Morgenstern
  • Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll

Science Fiction:

  • The Power: Naomi Alderman
  • Kindred: Octavia Butler
  • 1984: George Orwell

Mystery:

  • A M**der is Announced: Agatha Christie
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles: Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Thirteenth Tale: Diane Setterfield
  • Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn

Coming of age:

  • Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
  • Normal People: Sally Rooney
  • The Vanishing Half: Brit Bennett

Historical:

  • Longbourn: Jo Baker
  • The Colour Purple: Alice Walker
  • Kindred: Octavia Butler



Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire



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