Novel Writing for Beginners

Date Saturday 08 June 2019
Time 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Price£22 | £20
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Novel Writing for Beginners

workshop

Join Belfast-based novelist and short story writer Jan Carson for a two-hour masterclass in writing your first novel.

Covering structure, pacing, voice and character development, the workshop is aimed at emerging prose writers who are beginning their first long-form project.

Please come with a rough idea of what your novel will be about, a notebook and a pen.

About the tutor

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has a novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears and short story collection, Children’s Children, (Liberties Press) and a micro-fiction collection, Postcard Stories (Emma Press). Her novel The Fire Starters was published by Doubleday in April 2019. In 2018 she was the inaugural Translink/Irish Rail Roaming Writer in Residence on the Trains of Ireland.

 

VenueThe Crescent

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