TUTOR: Kerry Hadley-Pryce has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country (Michael Schmidt Prize); Gamble (shortlisted for The Encore Award) and God’s Country. Her fourth novel, Lie of the Land, is due for publication by Salt Publishing in 2025. She has a PhD in creative writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, teaches creative writing, and has contributed to Palgrave’s Smell, Memory & Literature in the Black Country anthology. She has had short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator and read by Brum Radio.
Start Date: 11th November, 2025
Duration: Six weeks
Fee: £160
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Step into the World of Intermediate Creative Writing: Unleash Your Storytelling Potential
Are you prepared to raise your creative writing abilities to new heights? Our online Intermediate Creative Writing Course beckons writers with prior experience or graduates of our Beginner’s Writing Course, providing them with an opportunity to refine their craft.
Personalised Guidance from Committed Instructors
Our skilled mentors eagerly await your submissions, ready to offer personalised feedback on a weekly basis. By entrusting your work for evaluation, you will gain priceless insights and expert guidance to elevate your writing.
Global Accessibility & Everlasting Access to Course Materials
Our courses are accessible to aspiring writers across the globe. Furthermore, even after the course concludes, you will retain lifelong access to all course materials, enabling you to revisit lessons for reinforcement whenever necessary.
High Demand & Early Registration
With the Intermediate Creative Writing Course in high demand, we strongly advise early registration to secure your place. Seize this golden opportunity to refine your writing skills and unleash your storytelling potential.
The Course at a Glance
This six-week online course offers a stimulating and flexible learning experience designed to accommodate busy schedules. With no fixed class times, you can progress through weekly text-based modules at your own pace, dedicating 2-3 hours per week to cultivate your writing prowess.
Each week, you’ll delve into new themes, delving into more intricate forms of creative writing. Engaging exercises will enhance your fiction writing and broaden your storytelling toolkit.
Week-by-Week Expectations
Week 1: Character & Story Structure
Building on some of the warm-up exercises and character-building techniques you might have used in earlier courses, this module introduces ideas about character and empathy even further by considering how questions of conflict and ‘what if?’ can develop your characters and lead to a satisfying resolution for your reader.
Week 2: Time & Pace
This module explores the different aspects of ‘time’ in a short story or a novel. It considers how techniques such as creating a timeline, flashbacks and flash-forwards work in a narrative, and how, in any narrative, time is a crucial and complex factor.
Week 3: Juxtapositioning
What happens if we bring together two or more often disparate ideas or images? Here in this module, we look at how this kind of ‘splicing’ can bring a story to life, and how playing with connections and clashes sparks and develops narrative ideas.
Week 4: Editing and Flash Fiction
This week’s module tackles what to cut and what to keep. Revisiting and re-writing is an important part of the writers’ craft, and perfecting the skill of ‘flash’ fiction is an excellent way of fighting back the urge to overdo description, and to recognise the power and effect of the short narrative.
Week 5: The Museum of Emotion
The importance of engaging emotionally with readers cannot be overstated. A. L. Kennedy said: ‘Fictional characters whose interior lives don’t hum and gurgle with this or that emotional tone can’t be expected to compete with the genuine and complex human beings against whom they are constantly being measured.’ This module will explore how we can integrate our emotions and all of our senses into our writing to create original narratives.
Week 6: Symbolism and Suspense
Literary symbolism can create different and sometimes ambiguous meanings. Taking your writing to another level, this module encourages you to take chances with your use of language, and to experiment with new ideas to find not just your ‘voice’ , but the many ‘voices’ you might have.
Embark on the Journey
Join us on this voyage of creativity and unearth the writer within you. Register now for our Intermediate Creative Writing Course and let your imagination take flight!
