The Brilliant Club Charity
Kelly Hatley also works as a scholars tutor for the Brilliant Club. The Brilliant Club works across the UK, supporting less advantaged students to access the most competitive universities and to succeed when they get there.
The Problem
Right now, just 1 in 50 of the least advantaged students enter the most competitive universities, compared to 1 in 4 of the most advantaged. Disadvantaged students are therefore 18 x more likely to miss out on life-changing higher education. This disadvantage doesn’t disappear when they enter university. Disadvantaged students are 3 x more likely to miss out on a 1st or 2:1 grade at university. This affects an individual beyond their time at university and impacts society as a whole.
Our Courses
Kelly Hatley has and continues to carry out extensive research in the field of Horror-Comedy writing. She found a gap in the knowledge while looking for ways to make her macabre, surreal, sometimes graphic fiction more palatable. There is an abundance of support to help writers write horror and likewise to help with comedy writing. However, if you wish to combine the two, there was nothing available.
Already, we are seeing wider progress from her work which helps writers navigate cancel culture, offense and motivation when it comes to blending the two genres. It also looks at techniques for combing horror and comedy while discussing their origins and other work to continue writers progress.
Kelly teaches two courses via the Brilliant Club – Die Laughing and Knock, Knock – Whose Fear? For KS4 and KS5 students. You can see a few of the schools she has worked with here,
She also has a new online Horror-Comedy Writing course which you can view details about here.
‘We are particularly pleased that 96% of pupils submitted their final assignment. Of these 23 received a 1st (74%) or 2:1, indicating that they are working well at a level above their current key stage; pupils should be very proud of their achievements.’
The Brilliant Club Impact Reporting
