Writers' Room Taster on Zoom

Join Chalk the Sun on the first Saturday of every month for this drop in Writers' Room and get some professional insight into what you have been writing.

Topics vary from month to month and cover all aspects of creative writing from basic scene setting and character creating to more advanced topics such as handling voice and viewpoint or interweaving plot and theme.

Students can ask to cover specific areas like poetry or writing a radio play. Guest tutors such as crime novelist Claire McGowan or children's editor Simona Sideri sometimes teach these sessions.

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Bring a pen and notebook, tablet or laptop. Our 4th May workshop will be run by novelists and screenwriter Simon Lewis. It will be a practical workshop on story, plot and theme. If you have a brief story outline, elevator pitch, for your works in progress bring it to class…