Writers Workshop – Intensive
Thursday 23/1/25 to Thursday 3/4/25
Ten weekly sessions with a reading week (no session) on Thursday 27/2/25
6.30-8.15 pm
£20 discount for returning members (use code HWWINTENSIVE when booking)
Thursday 23/1/25 to Thursday 3/4/25
Ten weekly sessions with a reading week (no session) on Thursday 27/2/25
6.30-8.15 pm
£20 discount for returning members (use code HWWINTENSIVE when booking)
Thursday 23/1/25 to Thursday 3/4/25
Ten weekly sessions with a reading week (no session) on Thursday 27/2/25
6.30-8.15 pm
£20 discount for returning members (use code HWWINTENSIVE when booking)
Course description
While our intensive writers workshop group will continue to respond to and discuss elements of writing craft and technique, members will dedicate significantly more time to their own writing practice, submitting, and receiving supportive and constructive feedback on, three pieces of work per term. You will be committed to a regular writing practice (you may be working on a novel or memoir, a series of short stories, or another longform project, for example) and will have developed your feedback and critiquing skills to an advanced level over at least two terms at The Hastings Writers Workshop, by undertaking similar courses of study elsewhere, or though your own extensive writing experience and critical reflection (if you haven’t studied with us before, please get in touch (either at james@hastingswritersworkshop.com or via the contact page) prior to booking to make sure this is the right group for you).
About the tutor
James Young is a writer from Belfast. His short stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, 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 is currently shortlisted 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.
