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Course description
This intensive and highly practical eight-week course will focus on advancing and shaping your novel-in-progress, whether from first to second draft or from a later stage towards completion. You’ll explore ways to take your novel forward by revisiting the building blocks of fiction writing, examining story, plot and pace, interrogating your characters and polishing your style. By studying examples of professional edits and through feedback from your fellow group members and the course tutor, assigned tasks and curated reading, you’ll leave with a toolbox of practical steps, ideas and inspiration for getting your manuscript into its ideal shape.
About the tutor
Rose Tomaszewska is an editor and tutor with fourteen years’ experience in the publishing industry. She helped set up the riverrun literary imprint at Quercus and was editorial director at both Virago (Little, Brown, Hachette) and Chatto & Windus (Vintage, Penguin Random House) before turning freelance in 2024. She has worked with authors including Colwill Brown, Kim Sherwood, Diana Evans and Christie Watson, and books she has worked on have won or been listed for various awards including the Desmond Elliott, Dylan Thomas and Women's Prize. She has taught workshops and courses at the Faber Academy, including Edit & Submit Your Novel, and Arvon since 2019, as well as at Oxford, Edinburgh and a number of literary festivals.