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Writing Women: Feminism in Poetry & Prose

Fri 10 July 2020 - Sun 12 July 2020

Tutors / Mari Ellis Dunning, Natalie Ann Holborow

Writing for Performance

Mon 13 July 2020 - Fri 17 July 2020

Tutors / David Lane, Kaite O'Reilly

Staying in the Poem

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Tutors / Fiona Benson, Andrew McMillan

Guest Reader / Hanan Issa

Writing from Life

Mon 27 July 2020 - Sat 1 August 2020

Tutors / Paul Dodgson, Katharine Norbury

Guest Reader / Eluned Gramich

The Poetry of Witness

Mon 3 August 2020 - Sat 8 August 2020

Tutors / Meena Kandasamy, Sandeep Parmar

Guest Reader / Deryn Rees-Jones

Fiction Reboot

Mon 10 August 2020 - Sat 15 August 2020

Tutors / Vanessa Gebbie, Cynan Jones

Guest Reader / Nikesh Shukla

Summer Retreat: Perfecting your poetry and prose

Mon 17 August 2020 - Sat 22 August 2020

Tutor / Christina Thatcher

Guest Reader / Christina Thatcher

Emerging Writers: Poetry and Prose

Sat 22 August 2020 - Thu 27 August 2020

Tutors / Tiffany Atkinson, Deborah Kay Davies

Animals are Poems, but are your poems animals?

Mon 31 August 2020 - Sat 5 September 2020

Tutors / David Morley, Pascale Petit

Guest Reader / Yvonne Reddick

Writing Wales

Mon 7 September 2020 - Sat 12 September 2020

Tutors / Mike Parker, Angharad Wynne

Welsh Language Day Course: Creative Writing for Welsh Learners

Sat 12 September 2020

Tutor / Mared Lewis

Writing and Illustrating for Children

Mon 14 September 2020 - Fri 18 September 2020

Tutors / Helen Docherty, Thomas Docherty

Guest Reader / Catherine Johnson

Writing to Heal

Fri 18 September 2020 - Sun 20 September 2020

Tutors / Damian Gorman, Patrick Jones

Poetry, Investigation and Play

Mon 21 September 2020 - Fri 25 September 2020

Tutors / Rosy Carrick, Ross Sutherland

Guest Reader / Ian McMillan

Building Comics

Fri 25 September 2020 - Sun 27 September 2020

Tutors / Dan Berry, Hannah Berry

Place, Myth and Folktale in Fiction and Poetry

Mon 28 September 2020 - Sat 3 October 2020

Tutors / Catherine Fisher, Marcus Sedgwick

Storytelling Retreat: To Begin at the beginning…

Mon 12 October 2020 - Sat 17 October 2020

Tutors / Hugh Lupton, Eric Maddern

Welsh Language Day Course: The Mabinogion

Sat 17 October 2020

Tutor / Rhiannon Ifans

Autumn Poetry Masterclass

Mon 19 October 2020 - Sat 24 October 2020

Tutors / Gillian Clarke, Jonathan Edwards

Guest Reader / Imtiaz Dharker

Autumn Retreat: Tips from a Literary Agent

Mon 26 October 2020 - Sat 31 October 2020

Guest Reader / Cathryn Summerhayes

Wales and London Laureates: Writing for Young Adults

Mon 2 November 2020 - Fri 6 November 2020

Tutors / Theresa Lola, Eloise Williams

Tales of the Unexpected…

Mon 9 November 2020 - Sat 14 November 2020

Tutors / Tyler Keevil, Katherine Stansfield

Guest Reader / Carly Holmes

Winter Retreat: Developing your brand as a writer

Mon 23 November 2020 - Sat 28 November 2020

Guest Readers / Anna Caig, Clare Mackintosh