Arvon: Honing Your Working Class Voice with Maria Fusco and Katrina Naomi Online)
Are you a writer from a working-class background looking to give voice to your experiences? Tutored by two acclaimed working-class writers, interdisciplinary writer Maria Fusco and poet Katrina Naomi, this week will enable you to start experimenting across different forms, from life-writing to fiction and poetry. Unlimited concessions available.
Drawing on your own lived experience, this course for those at the early stages of their writing journey will enable you to turn your ideas and observations into new writing through focusing on the characteristics and experiences of being working-class.
In supportive online sessions with your tutors, through tailored workshop exercises, close reading, stimulating discussion, inspirational prompts and one-to-one tutorials, you will gain practical skills to express your distinctive voice to the outside world.
Katrina Naomi is the winner of the 2021 Keats-Shelley Prize. She has published four pamphlets of poetry, including the Japan-themed Typhoon Etiquette (Verve Poetry Press, 2019). She has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, and tutors for Arvon, Ty Newydd and the Poetry School.
Maria Fusco is the author of six books and has been commissioned by organisations including Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Film London and Whitechapel Gallery. She is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Northumbria University.
Guest tutor: Isabel Waidner
Dates: Monday 27 - Friday 31 May 2024
Location: Online
Cost: £450 Concessions: £315
Please note: There are unlimited concessions available for this course. If the concession rate is not accessible to you, please email
helen.meller@arvon.org to enquire about any extra funding opportunities.
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