With the support of your tutors, author KJ Orr and editor Rose Tomaszewska, you’ll discover and explore new outlooks through workshops, talks, exercises and one-to-ones. You’ll engage deeply with your creative work while also developing skills to fine-tune it.

This course is perfect for any writers wishing to consider editing, whether you are working on an early draft, or a late one. At Totleigh Barton, you’ll have the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the editing process, while connecting with writers who are asking similar questions.

Rose Tomaszewska is Editorial Director at Virago and has worked for over ten years publishing literary fiction and non-fiction. Her authors have won or been shortlisted for prizes including the Women’s Prize, Baillie Gifford, Desmond Elliott, Bath Novel and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. At Virago she co-runs the Speakeasy at Pages events and the podcast OurShelves. She teaches writers at various universities and festivals as well as the Faber Academy and Arvon.

K J Orr’s short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, commissioned, anthologised, translated, and adapted for film. Light Box, her first collection, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2017, and includes ‘Disappearances’, which won the BBC National Short Story Award 2016. She has taught creative writing on the MA and MFA programmes at the University of East Anglia and Birkbeck, University of London.

Dates: Monday August 29th - Saturday September 3rd 2022
Location: Totleigh Barton, Devon
Cost: £845 / £591.50 (Concs)

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