NWS Workshops

NWS Workshops and Writing Retreat

To book a place on any of these, email admin@nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk or call 0115 959 7947

Getting Your Writing Out There

Saturday 1 March, 10am-5pm
at Nottingham Writers' Studio
with Ian Douglas and Deborah Bailey
£50 NWS members, £75 non-members (inc lunch)

Getting published isn't easy, even for great writers. Ian and Deborah will tell you how to:

• find markets and opportunities
• submit your work
• maximise your chances for acceptance
• network
• deal with rejection
• acquire useful secondary skills
• adapt to the market
• diversify your income streams
• work with editors and publishers
• use social media to your advantage

Building Strong Characters

4 weeks starting Monday 10 March, 7.30-9pm
at Nottingham Writers' Studio
with Victoria Oldham
£45 NWS members, £60 non-members

Make your readers care about your characters, and they'll care about your story.
In this writing-intensive workshop, we'll play with techniques that bring your characters to life. We'll look at examples of strong characters and then build our own, looking at:

• character arcs
• universal traits
• archetypes
• description
• dialogue
• stereotypes

Author 2.0: Social Media for Writers

Starting mid-February, running fortnightly on Wednesday evenings, details tbc
at Nottingham Writers' Studio
with Paul Anderson and Gaynor Backhouse

Confused about Facebook and Twitter? Want to blog but don't know how?
Paul and Gaynor are future technology researchers and consultants. Paul's award-winning book, Web 2.0 and Beyond, explains social media and how it works. In this hands-on course they will teach you technical tricks to help promote your work, and explore ways of making technology and social media work for you and your writing career.
For further information on this course please email admin@nottinghamwriterssstudio.co.uk