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.

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

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.