The Faber Academy: Six-Month Courses :
A full listing of all current and upcoming six-month courses at the Faber Academy. Courses are offered in a number of locations:
'Writing a Novel' with the Faber Academy with Richard Skinner and Esther Freud
Starts 5 October 2011
Writing a Novel From Start to Finish: a practical, workshop-based course for dedicated writers, covering all aspects of novel writing from first ideas for a book through character development, plotting and structure, to re-writing and ultimately publication.
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Location: LONDON
Becoming a Poet with the Faber Academy with Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott
Starts 4 October 2011
Becoming a Poet 2011: a practical workshop-based course which covers all aspects of poetry-writing from improving your technical skills to putting together a first collection.
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Location: LONDON
Writing Family History with Andrea Stuart
Starts 11 January 2012 [Book Online]
A comprehensive course on writing a family story, whether for publication or private interest, that will include sessions on effective research, finding an authorial voice, weaving individual stories into larger themes, shaping and editing material, and getting published.
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Writing a Novel with James Ryan and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Starts 11 October 2011
Based in Dublin and designed to develop a wide range of novel writing skills, this Writing a Novel six-month course that helps new writers progress from an outline idea through the various stages necessary to shape that idea into a novel.
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Writing a Novel with Kathryn Heyman and James Bradley
Starts 15 March 2011 [SOLD OUT]
Faber Academy at Allen and Unwin. Writing a Novel, Sydney, is a six-month practical course for dedicated writers ready to make the leap into creating a full length work of fiction, led by James Bradley and Kathryn Heyman.