Reignite Your Creativity and Find Your Voice - Self-Paced Course
Course outline After a video introduction students will complete 5 course sections made up of pre-recorded video tutorials and accompanying handouts. Each section will include practical writing exercises for the students to complete planned to take around 2-3 hours per section. However students will have the opportunity to repeat exercises as many times as they wish and will also be given suggestions for ways in which to incorporate exercises and reflections into their future writing. The five sections to the course will be: Part 1 – Bringing freedom back to your writing This will involve engaging with a range of free writing techniques from a variety of prompts provided in the tutorial and handout. Part 2 – Finding unexpected inspiration This section will be centred around finding inspiration in your own life – writing from observation, memory and day to day experiences. Part 3 – Developing stories Part 3 will build on parts 1 and 2 and start to look at how free writing and openness to inspiration can be developed into more coherent pieces of writing. As this module is aimed at RWA members in the first instance the focus will be on prose fiction but there will be the freedom to try non-fiction writing and poetry. The goal of the course is to connect with our creativity in whatever form feels most fulfilling.
Pre-course preparation
None. The course is suitable for brand new writers and experienced multi-published authors who want to re-engage with their love of writing.
Course Type
Craft
Hours of Commitment
5 - 10 hours
Presenters Bio
Alison May is a published novelist and a qualified teacher, specialising in teaching adults. She’s been published by Legend Press and HarperCollins HQ, writing as Alison May and, in collaboration, as Juliet Bell. Alison has been teaching creative writing since 2010, and has taught community groups, one-off workshops, adult education courses, a University of Worcester undergraduate creative writing module, and is currently an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. Alison has also led workshops for the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and Worcestershire LitFest and Fringe. She has published novels, novellas and short stories, and is a former winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Elizabeth Goudge Trophy. She has also been shortlisted in the Love Stories and RoNA Awards. Alison completed a BA (Hons) degree in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham in 2008, and is a former Chair of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and Society of Authors. You can find out more about Alison at alison-may.co.uk
Course Dates: March to November 2022
Cost: RWA-Member and Non RWA-Member – $55.00
* Please note, there is a $0.50 Trybooking fee at checkout.
Venue: Online - Moodle
(Once a participant has booked this course, once a week access will be activated for all SELF-PACED courses)
As a new development, RWA is very excited to be offering our very first selection of self-paced courses. These courses are available from March to November. Participants can enrol at any time during the year and once a week registrations will be activated. Participants may then access course material and progress through it at their own pace. Please note: There is NO presenter interaction associated with these courses. You simply register and then once you have access, you work through the course at your own pace.
RWA Academy Courses
PO Box Q740
Queen Victoria Building
NSW 1230
Contact Details:
Courtney Nayda
RWA Academy 1on1 Registrar
academy1on1registrar@romanceaustralia.com
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