MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: Bad World’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
The Criminal
Week 2
The Detective
Week 3
The Victim
Week 4
The Law
Week 5
Detective Fiction
Week 6
Spy/Political
Week 8
Slow-Burners/Rollercoasters
Week 9
Research
Week 10
Publishing
Week
Focus in Crime Fiction
Week 8
The Tone of Crime & Thrillers
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as excerpts will be provided in advance.
French, Tana. Into The Woods, Penguin, 2008.
Conan Doyle, Arthur. Sherlock Holmes – Short Stories. Arcturus (15 Nov. 2018)
Dodd, Leanne Dodd. ‘The perfect crime: Trauma writing strategies in crime fiction.’ TEXT 51 October 2018.
Orford, Margie. ‘The Grammar of Violence, Writing Crime as
Fiction’, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 25:2, (2013). 220-229
Others TBA.
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