Writer to Writer
with Claire Keegan
Registration closes: 10 March 2023, Friday, 5PM.
Summary
Course code: CK2
30 mins to 1 hour mentoring session
For Intermediate to Advanced Writers
Limited sessions available
Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise
Dates
Register above and we will email you with available timings in April/May 2023
By appointment only
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Overview and Learning Outcomes
- discuss your writing aspirations with an experienced writer in an encouraging environment
- obtain general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project
- obtain specific practical advice on aspects of the art and craft of writing, writing technique & your writing challenges
- obtain help on shaping your approach to your writing life
- understand what it takes to be a professional writer
Please note the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.
Sessions will be most effective if participants submit a list of questions they’d like to discuss and also up to 2000 words of prose beforehand.
Who should register?
- Intermediate Writers — Writers who have chosen to pursue writing as a full time or part time career with a serious, professional intent but who are not yet published with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, or
- Advanced Writers — Writers who have published at least one book with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, and/or published in at least one literary journal and/or anthology
Participants will be selected by the Visiting Writer with assistance from the Asia Creative Writing programme. A waiting list will be maintained.
Sessions will be most effective if participants submit a list of questions they’d like to discuss and also up to 2,000 words of prose beforehand.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
To sign up, please register via the link above with the following documents:
- A 300-500 word writing sample
- A short summary of your writing project or writing interests of ~100 words
- A short biography of 50-100 wordsIf you have registered with us before, you may send the same information again with an updated bio.
Participants must be over 18 years old at 8 April 2023.
Course Fees
- For each 30 min to 1 hour session:
- $25 for adults
- $10 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
- Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions
- Non-refundable if cancellation 2 weeks or less before course starts
- Please email us if financial assistance is needed
About Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.
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