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Course description
In this dynamic, interactive eight-week course, Gareth E. Rees will share ideas and practices to help you explore your life experiences in forms ranging from memoir to autofiction, creative nonfiction to writing about place. Through practical writing exercises and lively discussion you’ll discover ways to develop a distinctive narrative voice and frame the messy chaos of life into a fluid and engaging read, how to negotiate the challenges of writing about others or use landscape as a form of mediation and inspiration. You’ll delve into how to approach the ambiguities and uncertainties of memory and examine ways of bringing the techniques of fiction into non-fiction (and vice versa) to create vivid and original texts, while exploring techniques for research, planning and the writing process. Finally, feedback from your fellow course members and the course tutor will provide support and inspiration for progressing your own writing.
About the tutor
Gareth E. Rees is an author of books, short stories and essays that blur the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, including Sunken Lands, Car Park Life and an autofictional novel, The Stone Tide. His first book, Marshland, was nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize, while his psychogeographic travelogue Unofficial Britain was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and included as one of the Sunday Times' Best Books of the Year in 2020. His short stories have been selected for Best British Stories 2023 and The Best of British Fantasy 2019 and included in his own collection Terminal Zones.