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 08-09:

Get Inspired - short stories, features, poetry and personal experience -
for six Tuesdays beginning 9th September
Spring term - Tuesday 24th February
Summer term - Tuesday 21st April

Get That Book Out Of You - from pitch to publication -
for six Thursdays beginning 11th September
Spring term - Thursday 26th February
Summer term - Thursday 23rd April

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

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.

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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.