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Course description
In this dynamic, immersive three-hour workshop, led by award-winning novelist and short story writer Irenosen Okojie, you’ll explore how to embrace and develop a compelling and distinctive narrative voice in your fiction. Through the study of extracts featuring memorable examples of voice, creative and stimulating writing exercises, and the sharing and discussion of work produced in the workshop, you’ll learn how to write in a narrative voice that is exciting, original, and most of all, uniquely yours, bringing fresh richness and energy to your writing.
About the tutor
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her first novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards, and her most recent novel, Curandera, was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Formerly the Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She has judged various literary prizes, including the BBC National Short Story Award and the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction, and is the director and founder of the Black to the Future festival.