This intensive week-long workshop will explore the process of editing your own novel from a publisher's perspective. The first four days will involve workshopping and editing your work while day five will focus on the publishing process, synopsis and pitch.
As well as providing clear guidelines on honing your own fiction writing, with sessions focusing on elements such as structure, voice, character, setting and plot, course participants will have an opportunity to bring their writing through a collaborative process of workshopping, writing exercises and critiquing.
Writers will be asked to submit 10,000 words and a synopsis of a work-in-progress three weeks before the course commences. Participants will also be invited, in advance of the course, to offer suggestions for topics/areas of their work they would like workshopped.
Brian Langan is a freelance editor and literary agent, and founder of Storyline Editing and Storyline Literary Agency. Brian has over two decades’ experience in publishing,most recently as editor at Transworld/Doubleday Ireland, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Brian is also a published author and is currently writing his second novel.
Dates: Monday 12 - Friday 16 August 2019, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Location: Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Cost: €450/€420 Members (Participants on this course receive a €5 discount on Novel Fair 2020.)
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