Summer is often the time most associated with creative pursuits when you’re most likely to escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life. If you’re a writer or inspiring writer, this makes it the ideal opportunity to invest properly in your work - be it making a start on a new project that’s been swimming around in your head for months, or to inject the progress into your work-in-progress.
Guardian Masterclasses summer of writing has been designed as a retreat that you can fit around your life, a series of guided retreats, expert masterclasses and workshops that you can either join live online or follow at your own pace via a dedicated online community.
Over the course of three weeks, you’ll be guided and supported in your writing endeavours with most of our virtual workshops and classes also available as recordings and to catch-up on or to rewatch until the end of August. This means whatever your schedule, wherever you are in the world, you’ll have ample opportunity to achieve your writing goals.
This course is for …
Writers of all levels of experience, specialising in all genres although the primary focus of our masterclasses will be fiction
Course content
Get fit for writing – a series of author-led morning writing sessions to get your creative juices flowing
Guided writing retreats led by award-winning writer Anita Sethi
Characters on the couch - a creative writing masterclass on adding psychological depth to your protagonists with psychoanalyst and author Arabel Charlaff
Commercial fiction deconstructed with best-selling author Lisa Jewell and cultural studies professor Will Brooker
Blurring the lines a masterclass in autofiction with Jarred McGinnis
A masterclass with award-winning short story writer Huma Qureshi
A masterclass with leading British novelist Ross Raisin
Weekly writer’s surgeries with writers and mentors Shelley Weiner and Tim Lott
Style and syntax bitesized masterclasses with Guardian copywriter and writer Emma Cummins
Plus more to be announced
We’ll release our full timetable of events and more speakers in the coming weeks, but in the meantime we’re offering a 20% discount to earlybird bookers if you enter the code SUMMER22 at checkout.
While we endeavour to feature the masterclasses as advertised, due to the volume of classes in this event, we may have to replace a speaker if necessary.
Details
Date: 25 July 2022 – 14 August 2022, with community support and selected recordings available until 31 August 2022
Price: £349 (plus £7.80 booking fee) ; we’re offering a 20% earlybird discount rate of 20% if you book before midnight 24 June 2022 if you enter the code SUMMER22 at checkout.
The Guardian Masterclass summer of writing is available globally. If you are joining us from outside the United Kingdom, please use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.
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