Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 3rd Jul, 2025
11:00am - 1:00pm
Inhabiting your Fiction
Use the words you already have on the page to unlock story and bring more authentic detail to your work.
This online masterclass will demonstrate how existing sentences can be interrogated for narrative opportunities you may not otherwise have considered, and as starting points to enrich description and action so that you can create a more inhabited, encompassing story.
You will watch Cynan work on pieces of writing in real time and follow how he develops the text. To reinforce the techniques you see, you will also try some of them yourself during short sharp exercises; and there will be built-in time for questions at the end of the session.
Whether you’re new to fiction or have work in progress, the practical, proactive methods you’ll learn in just two hours will quickly help you write stronger, more engaging stories.
All online sessions are hosted by Moniack Mhor on Zoom Pro, usually with an opportunity to ask questions too.
Tutor
Cynan Jones is an acclaimed fiction writer from the west coast of Wales. His work has appeared in over 20 countries, and in journals and magazines including Granta, Freeman’s and the New Yorker. He has also written a screenplay for the hit crime drama Hinterland, a collection of tales for children, and a number of stories for BBC Radio. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous awards, and won, among other prizes, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award, and the BBC National Short Story Award.
Cynan worked for a number of years as the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Aberystwyth University, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019, and has accumulated countless hours of tutoring and mentoring experience over the last 20 years
Fees
We are running this as a ‘pay as you can’ event. Please see our booking options below. By paying our standard price wherever possible you help us give people on lower incomes more opportunities to attend, thank you.
We have a limited number of free places for this event, if these are showing as not available and you need a free place to be able to access the event, please email a request to us on online@moniackmhor.org.uk, thank you.
Access
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