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University College Falmouth If you’ve ever thought about making money from your writing, or are curious to have a go at different forms of writing, a five-day summer school at University College Falmouth could give you just the impetus and inside knowledge that you need to get started.
Running from 14-18 July, the Professional Writing Summer School will encourage participants to stretch their existing capabilities and try their hand at several different types of writing. Like the full and part-time Professional Writing MAs, it will be taught entirely by successful practising writers, who will discuss the key skills needed by writers across a range of different forms and share their experience of writing for a living. Areas covered will range from telling stories and creating characters to copywriting for business and developing ideas for feature articles and non-fiction books.
Among the tutors are:
Tim Pears, whose first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award and whose latest, Blenheim Orchard, was described by The Daily Mail as “a brilliantly insightful family saga, full of comedy and sadness”.
Oliver Bennett, a prolific features journalist and travel writer whose vast range of work appears regularly in national magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
Susannah Marriott, a freelance writer and editor who has published 15 non-fiction books on subjects ranging from complementary medicine to folklore.
Jane Pugh, who has worked as a script editor at both the BBC and Carlton Television, on series including Peak Practice and Ballykissangel, and has also written several short dramas for Channel 4.
Piers Alder, Head of Copywriting at Dutton Merrifield, a leading branding, marketing and design agency.
Places on the summer school are limited to 16 and cost £380, which includes two dinners with tutors and fellow students (accommodation is not included). At one of these, the award-winning travel writer and novelist Philip Marsden will be talking about and reading from his work.
Christina Bunce, who leads the College’s MA Professional Writing course, says: “This unique summer school is designed for people who have a way with words but don’t really know how to use their talent in a professional and commercial way. Our aim is to help people decide where their talents lie, show them how to tailor their writing to the demands of the market and inspire them to take their work to a new level of creativity.”
In April 2008, University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts to create a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth’s expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington’s expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.
The merger will pave the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall in 2012, creating a Higher Education institution unique to the South West.
For more details and to book a place on the course, please visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/summerschool or call Heidi on 01326 253701
University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.
For further information about MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/professionalwriting, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213854.
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