Faber Academy is branching out into this exciting – and growing – section of the fiction market with a brand-new course for 2021: Writing Audio Drama. In an intensive online week-long course on story, structure and technique, you'll take an in-depth look at the market for audio drama, from the BBC to newer platforms like Audible.
Taught by script writer, dramatist, director, and experienced creative-writing tutor Mike Harris, the course will cover pitches and proposals, treatments, scene plans, character development, themes and dialogue. You'll workshop your own writing and receive individual tutorials. And you'll learn to apply the analytical concepts covered to improve your drafting and editing skills in all your fiction, including prose.
The course will run from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. Each day will be divided into two-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, with a two-hour break for lunch and for completing exercises we will then discuss.
Each taught session will be a dynamic mixture of short theoretical/explanatory lectures, followed by questions and discussion, practical exercises, and sharing of work-in-progress.
Individual tutorials will take place in-session while the rest of the group works on writing exercises, as well as outside the session slots.
Dates: 23 – 27 August 2021
Location: Online
Cost: £450
Ten places.
Further details and to book here