You will receive rigorous constructive feedback on your novel or short story as you develop it with a view to publication and participate in detailed tutor-led discussions on advanced elements of fictional craft.

The course offers an opportunity to share and receive constructive critical feedback, network with other writers, and discuss elements of advanced fictional craft.

Ayanna Lloyd-Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her debut novel When We Were Birds was the 2023 winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, and the American Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award, the McKitterick Prize and named one of the UK Observer’s Best Debuts and The Economist’s Best Books of 2022. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Moko Magazine, Small Axe and PREE, among others and shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. She is the 2023 winner of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award and recently chosen by The National Centre for Writing and The British Council as one of one of ten Rising Stars in UK writing.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 5th January 2025.

Dates: Tuesday evenings at 19:00 - 21:00, 21 January - 1 April 2025
Location: Online
Cost: £399

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