Edinburgh’s Napier University is offering free writing workshops as part of this year’s Creative Showcase at the Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh. On Thursday 11th of June from 2 to 3.15pm there’s the Experimentalism for Beginners workshop and from 4 to 5.15pm there’s Writing for Graphic Novels with no less a Brit comics luminary than former 2000 AD editor Dave Bishop. According to the blurb ‘no previous experience required, bring pens, paper and plenty of enthusiasm’. The events are free but space is limited so email Sam Kelly on s.kelly@napier.ac.uk or phone 0131 455 6381 for more details.
(art by and (c) Dylan Teague)
Update: Sam tells me that Napier will begin a new MA course this September which will be the only one in the UK to offer specialist modules in writing for science fiction, fantasy and graphic fiction; you can find out more in an interview with Sam and Dave Bishop on the Epic site:
“Having decided that they wanted to start an MA in Creative Writing, they advertised for two lecturers to put together a programme and teach it. The steer towards including some form of genre writing was already there, because the University felt this would be a good idea – but when David and I arrived, we had pretty much a blank canvas in terms of how we interpreted that. What we decided to do was shape the programme around particular specialisms: crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy, graphic fiction, narrative for interactive media, commercial non-fiction and screenwriting. Then we added vocational training in a whole range of related disciplines: editing, cross-media adaptation, collaborative work, reviewing and feature writing, abridgement, working with pre-created characters…”
Mon, Jun 8, 2009
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