Writing Courses
Tutor: John Jenkins
6 Week Course – £72 per course.
7 Week Course – £84 per course.
Poetry Appreciation
Tutor: Johnnie Young
5 Week Course – £80 per course.
Course 1 : Writing for Pleasure - Tutor John Jenkins
Have you always wanted to write? Now is your chance!
Whether you want to write your life story, develop a useful second income or graduate to a full-time occupation as a feature writer and author of fiction, this course will encourage you to get started and answer the basics of the craft. The sessions will include everything you need to know about writing and help give it a professional polish. No previous experience required.
Course Dates:
Monday 6th January to 10th February (With half term break on 17th February) and Monday 24th February to 7th April, 10am to 12pm
6 Week courses £72.00
7 Week courses £84.00
These courses are consecutive and can be paid for together if preferred.
Course 2 : Poetry Appreciation - Alfred Lord Tennyson Tutor - Johnnie Young
Do you love great poetry? This is the course for you. It is designed to look at the work of five great poets drawn from a range of periods in English Literature. Although this course follows on from the previous course, it offers an independent new course designed to heighten appreciation of the poetry to inspire further exploration. Five of the poets to be explored are Shakespeare (love poems), Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy together with a rich treasury of extracts from many other great poets.
Course Dates:
Thursday 16th January to 13th February, 9.30am to 11am
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Thursday 27th February to 27th March 9.30am to 11am
WH AUDEN
Five Week Course £80.00
Course 3 : Literature Appreciation - Tutor Johnnie Young
Wuthering Heights
Five-week Course £88 (including the book)
Thursday 16th January to 13th February, 11.45am to 1.15pm
Many people know ‘Wuthering Heights’ as the ground-breaking Kate Bush song from the late 1970s but of course there is another masterpiece and another genius who provided the inspiration for it: Emily Bronte’s only novel – considered by many to be the greatest novel written in English. This course will explore, by using close reading techniques, how the author managed to create such a powerful and original novel which led Virginia Woolf to declare: “Hers…is the rarest of all powers.”
Romeo and Juliet
Five-week Course £88 (including the book)
Thursday 27th February to 27th March,11.45am to 1.15pm
The beauty of Shakespeare’s poetic genius will be looked at closely together with the dramatic context. The aim of this course is to read the play together in a group and to study some of the issues relevant to it. Much of what we will do as we investigate will be experimental, but it is designed so the process of reading and portrayal is enjoyed by all. This will be central to the method and central to the fun of exploration.
Johnnie is a published Bloomsbury Educational author with over thirty years of experience teaching English Literature. He makes the learning active and fun.
John Jenkins
Tutor
John has been teaching creative writing in its various forms here at Allendale House for more than 10 years. His vast experience and knowledge has helped many local people publish their own work.
Johnnie Young
Tutor
Johnnie joined us in January 2024. He is a published Bloomsbury Educational author with many years of experience teaching English Literature.
His enthusiasm is infectious as he brings his subject matter to life. Learning with Johnnie is active and fun.