Writing taster sessions and opportunities
Online or in person at your school or college* or at ARU we have a range of sessions for you to choose from. They can be delivered as a standalone session or as part of a build-your-own-taster day.
Making a World Out of Fragments — 60-90 mins
We’ll explore building a world for fantasy storytelling and look at how we can draw on our own experiences to lend credibility and poetry to a depiction of another place without losing the sense of wonder of our setting.
Flash Fiction Workshop — 60-90 mins
We’ll explore flash fiction or short story, working towards writing a complete narrative in under 200 words. We'll look at the techniques that allow a story to be shaped at that length, discuss what makes for effective plots and endings.
Making Interactive Stories in Twine — 60-90 mins
A workshop covering the basics in Twine, a free online tool for making interactive 'branching narrative' stories, where readers get to choose what happens next. Make a story with 'good', 'bad' and 'in-between' endings!
College Poetry — 60-90 mins
A workshop where we explore making poems from pieces of other text, drawing on all kinds of media - from favourite novels and comics, to forgotten books and old newspaper articles.
This is just a small selection of the activities we can offer. For more info and to arrange your personalised sessions get in touch: [email protected]
*Not all sessions can be delivered online or at your school or college. But we will work with you to shape the best experience for your students based on the delivery format. Timings are approximate. We hope you can join us on campus for one of them. Email [email protected] to find out how we can support your travel.
Meet our staff team
Dr Tim Jarvis: genre fiction, the Gothic, innovative writing, fictocriticism, writing for performance, digital literature, creative writing pedagogy.
Dr Alison MacLeod: contemporary and modernist short fiction, literary-historical fiction, prose fiction by women, historiographic metafiction, speculative fiction, fiction of the uncanny.
Dr Colette Paul: short fiction, theory and practice, prose fiction, narrative theory, contemporary women’s writing.
Katharine Reeve: non-fiction writing (nature writing, memoir, art and design), children’s publishing, editorial strategy and editing, Norfolk Broads and climate change.
Dr Jon Stone: poetry (lyric, narrative, visual, experimental), poem-game hybridity and interplay, digital and interactive literature, collaborative writing.
Toby Venables: screenwriting, horror cinema, historical fiction adaptation, storytelling and story structure, medieval material culture, zombies in film and literature.