Creative Writing Tutorials

Iowa Summer Writing Festival – the site of the much-celebrated writing program, this festival offers weekend, one-week and two-week workshops in many genres in which to perfect your skills!Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference – a ten day conference in poetry, fiction and non-fiction.The tutorial will end the course by providing you with some information on creative writing courses that are offered by universities in the UK.

National Aspen Summer Words A literary conference offering writing workshops and public panel discussions and opportunities to meet established writers, new writers, and literary agents.

AWP Conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) - an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature.

Community of Writer’s Workshops (Squaw Valley) – a week's worth of workshops in poetry, fiction/non-fiction/memoir, and screenwriting.

San Francisco Writer’s Conference – four days packed with 100 sessions filled with writing, publishing information and networking.

This tutorial will begin by taking a look at the concept of defamiliarisation, that is, looking at and describing familiar things but from a completely different perspective.

It will then move on to consider the effects of satire and parody before examining the relationship between form and content.Local/Regional “Our Life Stories” Writers’ Conference (Cosumnes River College) – an affordable one-day conference offered by the Hart Senior Center focusing on, but not limited to, memoir writing (particularly family stories) through genealogy with aspiring writers of all ages welcome.SPC Writers’ Conference (Sacramento Poetry Center) – a one-day conference emphasizing poetry and a great opportunity to network with local writers. Annual Conference on Creative Writing at University of the Pacific - A three-day conference at the University of the Pacific with interactive workshops and presentations covering all aspects and genres of creative writing.This tutorial will introduce you to the concepts of person and voice.In an attempt to underline the importance of these literary notions within written texts, it will consider the use of these concepts within the context of well-known novels and plays.Just like with an academic essay it is a good idea to start with an outline.You can follow the same 5 Point Essay Structure that you would use for an informative paper.She was educated at the Universities of London, Oxford and Dublin (Trinity College), and holds degrees in Greek, French and Applied Linguistics, as well as diplomas in Theology, teaching and translating.A creative essay is an essay that demonstrates an individual’s creative writing abilities.It will then move on to explore clichés, conventions, and formulae within the novel genre before ending with a section that is designed to improve your critical awareness of different forms of text.This tutorial will consider the creative provenance of a piece of written text.