Getting through the final stretch on your manuscript can be tough when seminars end and support from university tutors is no longer available. We know this is a common difficulty for creative writers coming out of MA courses, and we want to help you keep up your writing momentum, with the aim of finding a home for your finished book.
For the last six years, we have hosted monthly workshops from November to June to do just that. This year, these Post-MA Sessions are available online via Zoom. If you want regular feedback, and a group of writers to discuss good writing with every month, these groups are for you.
Whether you are writing short stories, memoir or a novel, including genre or YA fiction, you are welcome to join one of these groups.
These details are for the Post-MA Sessions with Lily Dunn, on Thursday evenings. You can find details of the parallel group with Zoe Gilbert on Monday evenings here.
Course outline
- Eight monthly workshop sessions to discuss work-in-progress
- Three opportunities to receive feedback on your work (up to 5,000 words per submission)
- Optional one-to-one support or critical feedback, at an extra cost
- An online writing community, lasting beyond the end of the course
The workshop group of up to ten writers meets for monthly sessions on Zoom over eight months. Members take turns to share work-in-progress ahead of each session, which is then critiqued as a group, with constructive feedback and discussion on any problems or issues raised. Each member will submit their work for workshopping at least three times over the course, up to 5,000 words per submission. Providing feedback to others on their work is a great way of honing your critical and editing skills, which you can apply to your own writing.
Group members will also have the option of receiving one-to-one support or critical feedback, at an extra cost.
Course dates
The Thursday evening sessions will take place via Zoom, 7-9pm on the 2nd Thursday of the month, November 2022 – June 2023:
November 10th
December 8th
January 12th
February 9th
March 9th
April 13th
May 11th
June 8th
Learning Online
Monthly meetings take place on Zoom, 7-9pm GMT, so you will need to have access to the internet at those times. Work in progress will be circulated by email.
