The Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Course gives you all the writing techniques required to write credible, compelling speculative fiction. Practise your skills in 12 writing assignments, with feedback on each from award-winning author, Sonny Whitelaw.
DurationThe Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Course gives you all the writing techniques required to write credible, compelling speculative fiction. Practise your skills in 12 writing assignments, with feedback on each from award-winning author, Sonny Whitelaw.
Whether you want to sell the short story that you produce, enter it into a writing competition, or use it as the basis for a novel, this course can fast-track your writing goals.
As you work through each module, you will learn why the many genres of speculative fiction are so successful, where to find countless ideas for your stories, and how to create realistic characters and the worlds they inhabit.
By the end of the course, you will have written a 1500-word short story that you can confidently submit to a publisher or use as the foundation for your much larger alternate universe series.
Our journey started all the way over in South Africa. In the beginning, we were a duo – Nichola Meyer and Lisa Lazarus – launching a single course in freelance journalism to a modest group of students.
Fast forward to today, and we’ve grown our humble venture into a truly global institution, boasting a presence in the UK, South Africa, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our offerings have blossomed, too. We now provide 35 unique writing courses, guided by a passionate team of 27 international tutors, and have celebrated the achievements of thousands of successful graduates.
Whether You Want To Sell The Stories That You Produce, Enter Writing Competitions, Or Simply Write For The Pleasure Of It, This Course Is A Powerful Way To Achieve Your Writing Goals.
Our foundation workshop is a transformative experience for anyone who writes at work. In 1 day, you’ll learn a set of practical, plain-language techniques to craft compelling, reader-friendly, and persuasive documents — from short emails to strategic reports, and everything in between.
Two groups of ten students form close supportive units, each working with a tutor. Writers work with prose and poetry. They critique each other’s work. They are exposed to other writers and the writing world, listen to guest speakers and are introduced to a range of good writing by their tutor.
This stimulating course will develop your ability to write a good story and to think more critically about your writing.
Whether you want to write the great Kiwi novel or write children tales, there are some fundamental building blocks that all aspiring writers need to know. Come along to learn the fundamentals of plotting, writing great characters and some of the essential nuts and bolts of creative writing.
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