Elizabeth’s year-long course, run season by season, is intended to support you and your writing process as you undertake a long-form fiction or creative non-fiction project. The premise is that by writing in the company of others, figuring out what sort of habits, goal setting and flexibility work for you, discussing elements of craft and process and what will bring the most joy as you write, even if it’s bloody tough at times – you will have more resources to complete a longer project. 

The autumn 2024 season’s craft sessions include a mixture of discussion, close-reading and writing exercise-based elements. We’ll focus on character, risk–taking and a subject agreed by the group in the first week. The subjects of craft sessions in future seasons will be informed by the interests and needs of the writers on the course.

Elizabeth Reeder writes fiction, experimental essays, poetry and hybrid work. She has two recent books: a novel, An Archive of Happiness (Penned in the Margins), which was longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, and a collection of hybrid lyric essays, microbursts, which is an artistic collaboration with Amanda Thomson (Prototype Publishing). She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Dates: 18 September - 18 December 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Online
Cost: £340 (Bursaries are available.)

Further info and to book here.