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 09-10:

Get Inspired:
Six Tuesdays beginning
Tuesday 22nd September for 7 weeks
(not schools' half term week).
Spring term - Tuesday 26th January
for seven weeks.
Summer term - Tuesday 27th April
for seven weeks.

Get That Book Out Of You :
Six Thursdays beginning
Thursday 24th September for 7 weeks.
Spring term - Thursday 28th January
for seven weeks.
Summer term - Thursday 29th April
for seven weeks.

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.