10.30am - 3.30pm
Members: £55 Non-members: £65
Concessions: £20 (call the office 020 8340 3343)
On this course we’re going to think about style as a distinctive way of representing the world. We’ll analyse and emulate the language and structure of a wide variety of texts: haiku, 19th century travel writing, 1950s advertising, Harold Pinter, hard-boiled crime, Charles Dickens, screenplays, contemporary auto-fiction etc. We’ll also make use of Raymond Queneau’s, Exercises in Style, first published in 1947, which rewrites a single very short story in 99 different ways. The aim of the course is to expand the range of styles you can write in and develop a more analytic understanding of how they work - central to the development of an effective writing practice.
