This online workshop is one of the first of our the new, exciting range of digital masterclasses that we are offering. In this live online workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage in real time with our brilliant course tutors, as well as other participants - with additional pre and post-course support from our learning team. To celebrate, we are offering an exclusive early bird discounts of up to 45% on our first workshops – we hope you enjoy them!
For some people, now can feel ripe with opportunities for engaging creativity and getting stuck into a meaty piece of work, like writing a novel or enhancing a new skill. For others, there simply isn’t time, what with stressful jobs or the little ones on the prowl for a new source of entertainment.
Whether you’re looking to develop your ideas to produce a chart-topper or you want to connect with young family members on a video call, put aside your adult-y excuses and reconnect with your inner child.
Curated by acclaimed author Laura Dockrill and featuring an exciting lineup of authors and industry professionals, this fun, engaging and accessible workshop will help you to find your narrative voice, develop your idea into a story, create memorable characters and more.
Joining Laura will be Nikesh Shukla, novelist and screenwriter, who will talk about how to write meaningful and engaging work for a young adult audience; and Alex T Smith, author and illustrator, who will focus on collecting ideas for stories and how to create work that is inspired by your own unique view of the world.
You needn’t have ever written anything to attend this class, and all questions will be very welcome. Just bring your curiosity and your creativity, and you’ll be well on your way.
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 3pm (BST).
Tutor profiles
Laura Dockrill is a writer, illustrator and performance poet. Her work includes the Carnegie Medal nominated young adult novel Lorali and the Darcy Burdock series for younger readers, which was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2014. In addition to her work as a writer and creative writing tutor, she’s been a roaming reporter for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and appeared on Blue Peter and CBeebies. She tweets @LauraDockrill.
Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is a contributing editor to the Observer Magazine and was previously its columnist. He is the editor of the bestselling essay collection,The Good Immigrant, which won the reader’s choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of two YA novels, Run, Riot andThe Boxer.Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller’s 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. He tweets @nikeshshukla.
Alex T Smith is an award-winning author and illustrator best known for creating the bestselling Claude series of early reader books and the Mr Penguin series about an adventuring, mystery-solving penguin. Alex has also illustrated for a wide variety of authors including Enid Blyton, Dodie Smith, Eva Ibbotson and Juno Dawson. He has been the official World Book Day Illustrator and won the World Illustration Award for his work on The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Since the Claude books became an animated TV series, he now develops children’s TV projects alongside his publishing work. He tweets @Alex_T_Smith.
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 3pm (BST).
Details
Date: Saturday 23 May 2020
Times: 3pm-5.30pm (BST)
Price: Early bird discount price of £30 (plus £1.97 booking fee)
Event capacity: 50
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