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Course description
On our continuing study writers workshop group you’ll continue to explore writing craft and technique through the close reading of set texts and lively, stimulating discussion, while receiving constructive and supportive feedback on your writing from your fellow group members and the course tutor. Our Continuing Study programme is suitable for those working in any form, though participants should have previous experience of workshopping, either by attending courses at Hastings Writers Workshop, or through similar writers workshops or courses of study elsewhere. If you’re unsure which of our writers workshops is best for you, please drop us a line via the contact page or at james@hastingswritersworkshop.com.
About the tutor
James Young is a writer from Belfast. His short stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, and Honest Ulsterman, and been shortlisted for the Sean O'Faolain, Wasafiri, Fish, and Bath prizes. He is the co-editor of Short Fiction literary journal, and has an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a translator, and the winner of the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. His translation of The Love of Singular Men, a novel by the Brazilian author Victor Heringer, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards John Leonard Prize and the ALTA First Translation Prize, won the 2024 Jabuti Prize for the best Brazilian novel published abroad, and was runner-up for the Society of Authors First Translation Prize. Previously a journalist, he has written for Rolling Stone, The Observer, The Independent, Sports Illustrated and many other publications and sites. He is the founder and director of The Hastings Writers Workshop.
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