Fiction Workshop with Naomi Wood and Andrew Cowan

I am a writer and teacher of Creative Writing. I am the bestselling and award-winning author of three novels, The Godless Boys, Mrs Hemingway and The Hiding Game (Picador). This year, I published my debut short story collection, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. I  teach Creative Writing on the world-renowned Creative Writing programme at UEA.

Naomi Wood

Hone your craft, receive personalised feedback, explore new techniques to use in your fiction - with two expert writers and teachers.

Welcome to our Fiction Writing Workshop!Date: Every Monday evening from 1 September to 6 Octoberwith no class on Mon 15 SeptTime: 19:00-21:00 GMT on Zoom.Description: Join us over five weeks as we workshop your texts and explore various themes, subjects and challenges in fiction. This class is designed for people will some work underway - a novel in progress, say, or a clutch of short stories. You'll each have an opportunity to have your text (up to 4K) read and critiqued by the workshop group and the tutor over 45 minutes. In the remaining time, we'll do a short writing exercise and have a little time for discussion. Naomi will teach the first hour; Andrew will teach the second. You'll receive written feedback from the group and from your teacher.The class is limited to ten people.Your Tutors:Dr Naomi Wood is the bestselling author of The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game. As a novelist, her books have won a Jerwood Award, the British Library Hay Festival Prize, and been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Historical Writers Golden Crown. Her début story collection This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things was published in 2024 . In 2023 she won the BBC National Short Story Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at UEA.Professor Andrew Cowan was for ten years the Director of the Creative Writing programme at UEA, where he taught for twenty years on the MA in Creative Writing. He is the author of the bestselling guidebook, The Art of Writing Fiction, recently reissued in an updated second edition. His first novel Pig was the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, a Betty Trask Award, the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for five other awards. He has since published five other novels: Common Ground, Crustaceans, What I Know, Worthless Men and, most recently,Your Fault.

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