The genius of place
Next weekend – Saturday 16th March – we’ll be running a one-day masterclass helping writers to develop the way you look at the nature of landscape and setting and help you understand how they can contribute to your writing as elements of narrative. We shall start by looking at how artists, filmmakers, photographers and landscape architects create settings that are charged, layered, dynamic and enigmatic. We’ll follow this with practical work on how real places can suggest ideas for a story. Then, with reference to selected texts and through writing exercises we’ll explore how settings and landscape influence both character and action.
The workshop will be run by Rosie Chard, a novelist, freelance editor, writing coach/mentor, landscape architect and English language teacher. Her first novel Seal Intestine Raincoat, published in 2009 by NeWest Press, won the 2010 Alberta Trade Fiction Book Award and received an honourable mention for the Sunburst Fiction Award the same year. She was also shortlisted for the 2010 John Hirsch award for the Most Promising Manitoba writer. Her second novel The Insistent Garden, also published by NeWest Press, was the recipient of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction in Manitoba in 2014. The Eavesdroppers, her third novel, was published by NeWest Press in September 2018. She is currently writing her fifth novel.
The session will be held online on Saturday 16th March 2024 and will run from 10-4pm with an hour for lunch and plenty of screen breaks. Book your ticket here.
This one-day masterclass sits alongside three others:
Friday 8th March – Objects and Detail – Mick Jackson. 10-4pm at Jubilee Library, Brighton Saturday 9th March – Managing Pace – Beth Miller. 10-4pm at Jubilee Library, Brighton Sunday 10th March – Character and Conflict – Ruth Figgest. 11-5pm at Jubilee Library, Brighton
The in-person masterclasses are £50 each while the online workshop is £40. Places are limited to 15 for in-person workshops and 12 online. Book your place for any of these sessions here