Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 9th Apr, 2025
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Whether you’re new to writing, polishing your umpteenth draft, or simply want to try a taster of a different style, form, or genre, we’re confident you’ll enjoy and be inspired by these focused shorter masterclass and workshop sessions. All hosted by Moniack Mhor on Zoom Pro, usually with an opportunity to ask questions too. More of these to come during 2025 – we’ll keep you posted! Meanwhile, enjoy …
This ‘Intention’ masterclass will be delivered as a talk by A.L. Kennedy, with plenty of opportunities for participants to respond to questions throughout the session. It won’t include writing exercises.
Discovering your intention as a writer
When we write, we may set out without a clear sense of direction, or we may begin before we are quite ready to write. It’s easy to lose our direction, or to never quite find it and therefore to lose momentum of projects that might otherwise succeed. If we love writing, we really should be able to succeed – that’s the ideal. This session will look at how we can clarify who we are as a writer, how we want to write, what work we want to produce in this time and in this world and how best we can acknowledge who we are and prepare both ourselves and our work so that we write effectively in an organic and unified way. Once our purpose is unified, we have a chance to do our best.
Tutor
A.L. Kennedy was born in Dundee. She lived for almost 30 years in Glasgow and now stays in North Essex. She has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Award, the Costa Prize, The Heinrich Heine Preis, the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rees Prize. She has twice been included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has written 9 novels, 6 short story collections, 3 books of non-fiction and 3 books for children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Akademie der Kunst. She also writes for the stage, screen, TV and has created an extensive body of radio work including documentaries, monologues, dramas and essays. She also performs occasionally in one person shows and as a stand-up comic.
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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