Creative writing courses are offered throughout the year. Writers can be helped by reading out their work, if they wish, in an informal atmosphere and receiving constructive feedback from the group and tutor. The tutor's written assessment and proof reading are included in the fee.

There is a syllabus and various topics are covered within the course by mini-lecture. Discussion, brainstorming, writing exercises and hotseating of ideas and characters are strategies which are used to discover and learn.

Please do not feel intimidated. This can also be an opportunity to make friends with a similar interest.

CREATIVE WRITING COURSES 2011-12:

Get Inspired Tuesdays
Get That Book Out Of You Thursdays

Seven week term with schools half term break beginning:
Autumn - Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th October.
Spring - Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 5th January.
Summer - Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th April.

Assessments included in fee
10.00am until midday at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield
Enrolments taken throughout the year
Saturday workshops

Course Reservation & Information

Private assessment, editorial work on novels and non-fiction, poetry, short stories, articles and consultations by arrangement.

Please contact me for updated information on courses and workshops to be held throughout the year.

Jan regularly runs writing workshops in Cape Town: Milnerton, Fish Hoek, South Africa.

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Your comments and suggestions were invaluable. This certainly wouldn't have been the same book without your help.
Steve Givens - author of 'Indian Gold'
and other books published by New Canaan Publishing.

Jan's dedication to would-be writers cannot be appreciated unless you sit in on her classes.
Ed Guziejka - author of 'Pain - My Friend' Infinity Publishing.

Jan has put me forward for writing commissions. I can always count on her for encouragement and inspiration.
Jenny Hammerton - author of 'For Ladies Only' published by The Projection Box and Chic Chat contributor.

In a lifetime of teaching and being taught, I would rate Janet Moran Neil among the top handful of teachers I have met. This being for enthusiasm, thoroughness of preparation and marking, subject knowledge, vivacity and class empathy.
Alan Halstead - author of 'On Sunlack Hill' - winner of the Writers' News Poetry Collection Award.

The work of our fiction and non-fiction writers is currently being published in local and regional magazines.