Fiction
(Fiction)
Fiction is a twelve-week course, comprised of twelve lessons and three opportunities for you to gain written feedback on your writing from the course tutors, and participate in peer discussion. The course also includes various opportunities for you to try out a range of writing styles and techniques.
Taught by Nike Bourke and Donna Hancox, this course focuses on writing fiction, including both the short story and the novel. Each lesson includes a range of readings, a discussion of techniques used by a variety of writers, and opportunities for you to experiment with your own writing.
Fiction begins with an introduction to this broad genre, its history, forms and various genres. We’ll experiment with different structural and narrative techniques; ways of telling your story. The course explores creating memorable characters and establishing point of view. We’ll learn how to write powerful scenes and convincing dialogue.
Fiction also examines the importance of setting and ways of constructing three-dimensional landscapes. We’ll experiment with description and style, the craft of writing on a sentence-by-sentence level, and finding your own unique voice.
Fiction then takes a closer look at the craft of writing short stories and the genres of literary fiction, speculative fiction, crime fiction, and children’s fiction.
In the final lesson, we’ll explore writing a novel or novella length work
- Teacher: Nike Bourke
- Teacher: Inga Simpson