Higher Education
We have several creative writing workshops running through Herts, Beds and Bucks within schools, colleges and universities.
Contact kelly@creativehats.co.uk for the latest dates and prices
North Hertfordshire College
Creative Writing for Beginners and Improvers
Tuesdays 6.45pm to 8.45pm – Stevenage Campus
This course covers a broad range of topics, from fiction and creative non-fiction to writing for magazines and blogs. Helping you to identify your personal writing goals and a way of working successfully to achieve them.
Week One: Introduction – People, Characters, Voices
Week Two: Homes for your Characters – Personality, Arcs, Dialogue, Genre – Prose, Poetry, Screen, Stage, Articles, Memoirs
Week Three: Plot – Action, Conflict, Resolution, Planning, Story Structures, 4D Immersion
Week Four: World Building – Setting, Timing, Research
Week Five: Language – Words, Sentences, Style, Authenticity, Evocation and Provocation
Week Six: World Building/Views – Creating Distance and Intimacy
Creative Writing Next Steps
Mondays 6.45pm to 8.45pm – Stevenage Campus
This course continues on from our beginners course to further develop your writing skills and explores a range of topics including character development, themes, language and more.
Week One: Time Management, Planning and Motivation
Week Two: Creating Tension in your Work
Week Three: Adding Humour and Understanding How Comedy Works
Week Four: Themes, Layering your Writing to do more than Tell Stories
Week Five: Projects, Collaborations and Individual
Week Six: Sales and Marketing – Author Platforms, putting yourself Out There!
“Hello Kelly … I just wanted to write and thank you for a really interesting and inspiring course. From the five senses on day one, which gave birth to Gabriel, to the useful words and verbs on week ten. It was thoroughly enjoyable. It was a real challenge for me as I thought I would be the oldest in the class and feared I wouldn’t be able to hear you over the clatter of the keyboards. I decided after week one to set myself a goal, to write my short story and present it to you for scrutiny before week ten and I achieved that. Bobby the magic bus was just a bonus!”
A. Bigsby North Hertforshire Student