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The Garsdale Retreat: Memoir/Life Writing: Writing Lives with Richard Skinner
Mon 16 Oct 2023 to Sat 21 Oct 2023
From whistleblowing bestsellers by doctors to Norwegian experiments in writing about daily life, the genre of life writing is bigger and broader than ever. This course will look at the many and diverse ways you can write about your life or other peoples’.
For example, how truthful can/should you be in presenting yourself in your writing? To what extent can you yourself enter into the telling of another person’s life? Drawing on a wide-ranging series of case studies, and putting these ideas into practice in a series of writing exercises, we will spend the week discussing and deciding on the most suitable way for you to write a life.
Richard Skinner has published three novels with Faber & Faber, including The Red Dancer, a fictional biography of Mata Hari (reissued by Faber in October 2017), and The Velvet Gentleman, a fictional biography of Erik Satie (shortlisted for the Prix Livres & Musiques). He has also written a biography entitled The Busby Babes. Richard is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and teaches a week-long ‘Writing Lives’ course.
Guest: Chitra Ramaswamy
Dates: 16th – 21st October 2023
Location: The Garsdale Retreat, Clough View, Garsdale Head, Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5PW
Cost: £845 – £945
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Additional Information:
Location:
Sedbergh, Cumbria
Region(s):
North West England
Price:
£845 – £945
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