Creative Writing: Introduction – Galway City Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. You will certainly enjoy and find very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction/Poetry
Week 2
Realism/Starting to write
Week 3
Sci-fi/The Writing Life
Week 4
Crime/Self-Editing
Week 5
Relationships/Sharing and critiquing
Week 6
Horror/Submitting
Week 7
Stage – The Medium/Formats/Submissions
Week 8
Screen – The Medium/Formats/Submissions
Week 9-11
Special Focus
Week 12
Final Project readings
Writers have the option to submit writing and read others’ material via email/workshop . Writers can also submit a Final Project. Writers receive support readings and weekly video to ensure a high quality course experience. Course is suitable for complete beginners but those with some experience are also welcome.
Reading list
Readings/viewings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as material will be provided in advance.
List
Blake, William. Blake’s Poetry and Designs. WW.Norton, 2008.
Joyce, James. ‘The Dead’ Dubliners. The O’Brien Press, 2012.
Davis, Wendy, ‘Below My Window’, Mystery Tribune (no date).
Poe, Edgar Allen. ‘The Black Cat’. Selected Tales, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Treadmill, Sophie. Machinal (UCLA Production, 2005)
Other readings TBA.
Registration: €289.99 here (Limited places)
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