Writing Your Story

16th January 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

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Writing your story. Practical tips for writing real lives and fiction

Five-week writing course, £80

Do you have a tale to tell? Stories from your own life or a friend or relative. Or an idea for a thriller, romance or historical novel.

Would you like to know how to bring those stories to life?

Jacqui Currie MA, is a Cockermouth-based Lecturer in Creative Writing for the Open University with her own writing businesswww.tellingyourtale.co.uk. Jacqui will run a series of classes full of practical tips and techniques to help you find a place to begin your story, or to shape what you have already started.

"Jacqui's writing workshopshave been excellent in developing my confidence to write my memoirs. Her well-structured sessions have covered some of the essential aspects to writing and her effective, facilitating style of delivery helped put myself and the others on the course at ease. I have thoroughly enjoyed the interactive sessions, learned a lot about improving my writing, and the course has given me the essential confidenceand motivation to write more." – Tony

Classes will be held weekly running from 10am to 12 starting from Thursday January 16th. The classes will be structured in a block of five sessions costing £80 for the block.

Just bring yourselves, your notebook or a laptop.

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