Novel Writing Summer School

This is an intensive week-long version of the Novel Writing and Longer Works course.

The Novel Writing Summer School will range from the basic practicalities of novel writing to advanced concepts and techniques. You will examine the use of vital aspects of the craft and develop your understanding of essential elements: finding the centre (generating and developing ideas), openings, description/evoking time and place, character, narrative development, plotting, narration, voice and more.

There will be concrete advice on supporting your practice as a writer and revising and editing your work and you will have the opportunity to share work in progress and receive motivational feedback from the course tutor and your peers.

This creative writing fast-track course is ideal preparation for our Writers’ Workshop and The Novel Studio courses.

City's Novel Writing Summer School is part of City's range of short creative writing courses that boasts a growing list of published alumni. An intermediate-level course aimed at those who have done some writing in the past, the Novel Writing Summer Programme is open to writers keen to make a solid start on that novel they’ve been thinking about, or to develop work they’ve already begun.