Morag Joss - 'Falling in Love with your novel again'
Morag Joss - Arvon tutor and author of seven novels, the Sara Selkirk series set in Bath, Silver Dagger winner Half Broken Things and The Night Following, which won an Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for Best Novel 2009. Famous Last, her play for Sky Theatre Live! was shortlisted for a television award. www.moragjoss.com
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Lee Coombes -' Comic Writing'
Lee performed with Vic Reeves in the infamous Deptford Tunnel Club as well as The Parrot Café and Society of The Spectacle and worked as a community film maker and scriptwriter. After completing an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University his play ‘CabMaster’ was performed by Theatre West in Bristol His short stories have been pubiished in ‘Exquisite Corpse,’ ‘The French Literary Review’ and ‘Bullet,’ magazine. As part of Bristol-based performance prose outfit ‘Words Allowed,’ Lee toured the UK on an Arts Council sponsored tour before performing in several sell out one man shows round the country.
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Victoria Finlay - 'How to write a non-fiction book proposal'
Best selling author Victoria says “writing a book proposal is a brilliant thing to learn - I know that I would have struggled much harder to get an agent and book deal if somebody hadn't taught me that skill. And it's fun to do in a short workshop...” She is the author of the acclaimed Colour: Travels through the Paintbox and Jewels: A secret history. She also co-wrote Faith in Conservation. |
Gerard Woodward - 'Creating Surprise in your novel'
Gerard Woodward is an award winning novelist and poet. His first collection of poems, 'Householder' was published in 1991 and won the Somerset Maugham award, his novel 'August' was listed for the Whitbread Book Awards and 'I'll go to bed at noon' (2004) for the Man Booker prize. He is a regular reviewer or the TLS, The Guardian and s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As well as being an Arvon Tutor, Gerard teaches on the BA and MA creative writing courses at Bath Spa University.
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