Teaching Fiction

Rosie Jackson | Creative Writing - all levels tutor

Rosie Jackson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:06:25 +0000

I've been running popular writing workshops for 20 years, in UK, Europe, Skyros, and US at Writers' Centre Washington D.C. I also work individually mentoring and helping people get published or take their writing to new levels.

In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard asks `Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?... We still and always want waking...'

I inspire and encourage writing in this vein - prose fragments, short stories, novels, creative non-fiction, poetry, all genres...

Frome, United Kingdom

Subjects: Creative Writing, Creative Writing - all levels, Fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, Spirituality & Creativity

Susan Elderkin | Creative Writing tutor

suse — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:44:48 +0000

Susan Elderkin is a novelist. Her first novel, Sunset over Chocolate Mountains (Fourth Estate, 2000), won a Betty Trask prize, and her second, The Voices (Fourth Estate, 2003), was shortlisted for the IMPAC award and the Ondaatje Prize for books which evoke the spirit of a place. In 2003 she was named by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in Britain.

London, United Kingdom

Subjects: Creative Writing, Fiction

Charles Fleming | writing coach

charlesfleming — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:56:16 +0000

I am a professional, best-selling journalist, author and university lecturer with more than 25 years of experience. I have published fiction and non-fiction, biography and "as told to" autobiography, young adult literature, and have written for daily, weekly and monthly news publications -- among them Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, People and many others. I have taught at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism for more than ten years, and have helped dozens of writers improve their writing and communicating skills.

Los Angeles, United States

Subjects: biography, Creative Writing, Fiction, Memoir, non-fiction, writing, young adult

Jim Hall | Creative Writing teacher

JimHall — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:58:20 +0000

I’m a teacher of creative writing and journalism. Most of my work is done through university courses (University College Falmouth and the Open University) although I also work with groups and individuals who don't have the pressure of degree work hanging over them. These usually include people who are brand new to writing.

I can work with individual writers on specific projects and have significant editorial experience. I’m most at home with fiction (long and short forms) and creative nonfiction – usually of a biographical or autobiographical bent.

Falmouth, United Kingdom

Subjects: adaptation, creative nonfiction, Creative Writing, creativity, Fiction, narrative

Jacqui Rowe | Creative Writing teacher

jacquir — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:37 +0000

My poems have appeared in Mslexia, The Interpreter’s House, Smtih’s Knoll, Poetry Review, and Reactions 2 and 3 and many other publications and I have been successful in competitions, most recently as a prizewinner in the New Writer poetry awards, 2006. My new collection, Blue, is published by Flarestack. My story "Maxwell Demon and the Butterfly's Wing" appears in Shazkaz and Other Stories, which is widely read in schools. For a number of years I was an English teacher until Teachers as Poets sessions run by Birmingham LEA and led by David Hart turned me into a writer.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Subjects: Creative Writing, Fiction, poetry, Screenwriting

Nancy Rawlinson | Creative Writing teacher

nancyrawlinson — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:40:19 +0000

I'm a writer, editor, teacher and writing coach with over ten years of experience. I have an MFA in writing from Columbia University in New York, and I currently teach through the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. I am also nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine.

My students and clients have gone on to publish books, stories and articles, be accepted at prestigious MFA programs and residencies, and gain more pleasure from their writing lives.

New York, United States

Subjects: book proposals, Creative Writing, Feature Articles, Fiction, Memoir, MFA applications, Nonfiction, Personal Essays

Jenny Alexander | Creative Writing workshop leader

writingworkshops — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:56 +0000

Jenny Alexander writes for both children and adults and her published work includes fiction, non fiction, magazine articles and poems.
She runs six-session series of evening workshops for adults in East Cornwall and one-off workshops further afield.
Jenny teaches creative writing workshops in schools, where the emphasis is on enjoyment and participation.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Subjects: creating a practice, Creative Writing, Fiction, Memoir, non-fiction