How to Tell a Story (8-week Creative Writing Course)

This creative writing course, taught by screenwriter and novelist Isabelle Grey, is for anyone with a story to tell. Whether you’re writing a first novel or a family memoir, this will show how to build a narrative that people will enjoy reading.

Seven classes over eight weeks will cover theme and plot, character and point of view, pace and suspense, endings and beginnings, and include plenty of workshop exercises. You will learn how to edit your own work as well as give constructive feedback on each other’s work, with the additional week offering extra time for participants to exchange writing samples ahead of the next class.

The course costs £140 and will be held every Tuesday evening over eight weeks:

• 15 September
• 22 September
• 29 September
• 6 October
• 13 October
• 20 October
• No session on 27 October for half term break
• 3 November

About the Group Leader

Isabelle Grey has published nine novels, including the DI Grace Fisher crime series and, as V.B. Grey, two historical novels of psychological suspense, Tell Me How It Ends and Sisterhood. As a television screenwriter, her credits include, amongst multiple episodes of popular crime dramas, Jimmy McGovern’s BAFTA award-winning Accused. She has also written non-fiction and been a magazine editor and freelance journalist, and, for five years, was Writing Tutor on the MA Screen at Drama Centre, Central St Martin's, as well as tutoring for the Arvon Foundation.