WRITING
The Creative Step: Advanced
SPRING WN228
Monday
Mark Granier
The Advanced Creative Step is designed for those who have already done some writing (short stories, poetry, essays, etc.), and perhaps even published a few pieces, but have not yet managed to adjust to a working rhythm and routine. Though it has similarities with the Creative Step for Beginners, this course will focus more on producing and work-shopping students’ own work. As with the former course, group discussion will be actively encouraged, and we will look at examples of writing by accomplished contemporary authors and those from previous centuries. The course should be useful to those who completed the 8-week course for beginners and wish to take it further.
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8 Mondays |
Jan 28, Feb 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar 4, 11, 25 (No class March 18) |
7.30pm - 9.30pm |
| FEE €155 | Print Open Learning Application Form or ring (01) 716-7123 for Laser/credit card payment | |
Tutor Details:
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957. He completed an MA in Poetry/Creative Writing with Lancaster University and has been teaching creative writing for UCD’s Adult Education Department for several years. He has published two collections with Salmon Poetry, Airborne (2001) and The Sky Road (2007) and his third collection, Fade Street, was published by Salt in 2010. His awards include the 1997 New Writer Prize, two Arts Council Bursaries (2002 and 2008), First Prize in the 2002 Féile Filíochta, The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004 and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2011.
Provisional list of key topics to be covered:
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Finding a working rhythm
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Writing on the net
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Learning to be self-critical
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Revising
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Some basics on publishing
Who is the course for?
People who have already begun to do some writing and wish to take it further, receive feedback, etc.
