Creating an Imaginary World
The Deadline for this Event has Passed
A 5-day residential course for up to 14 students, led by Greg Mosse with Kate Mosse and Jason Goodwin.
Kate Mosse is co-founder of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and presents for BBC Radio and TV. Her worldwide best-seller Labyrinth has been published in 40 countries. Orion will publish her new novel Sepulchre this autumn.
Jason Goodwin studied history at Cambridge. An award-wining travel writer, his publications include The Gunpowder Gardens – travels in China and India in search of tea (1990), On Foot to the Golden Horn (1995), Lords of the Horizons (1999). Jason’s detective story The Janissary Tree is published by Faber in 2006.
The course runs from 18h30 on Sunday 30 September to 15h30 on Friday 5 October 2007, West Dean College in West Sussex.
Course Description
This full week course is designed to help participants develop gripping,
interconnected storylines located in 'other' worlds, subtly or radically
different from our own. We will look at children’s crossover,
magic, fantasy, science fiction, pre-history and history, plots and
subplots, adding or deleting characters, point of view, tone of (narrative)
voice, as well as special techniques around dialogue, epistolary writing
(letters, telephone conversations, instant messaging, emails), beginnings
and endings.
Participants are invited to submit a story or part of a story of up to 2000 words before the course begins. Detailed editorial feedback will be available to participants from the tutors during the course.
Full details of the timetable of sessions for all five days are available from West Dean College.
Cost & booking
Full details of residential and non-residential rates are available from West Dean College on:
0844 4994408 (in UK)
+44 (0)1243 811301 (from abroad).
