Enrol for a creative writing workshop in Mumbai

Author Renu Balakrishnan is inviting aspiring writers to join her for a creative writing workshop in Mumbai. Read on for details.

Do stray comments and incidents trigger thoughts and emotions in you?

Do you mull over these and try to understand the larger picture?

A course in creative writing will help you turn these into short, meaningful essays and polish them for publishing or for blog posting.

What's it about?

Author Renu Balakrishnan is organising a creative writing workshop in March and April 2016 at Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.

The course will help you understand the genre and rules of writing creative non fiction.

You will use the techniques of writing in scenes, using dialogue, developing characters, describing settings and other aspects of creative non fiction writing.

You will be able to analyse the structure of the personal essay and read, critique and appreciate elegant examples. And you will write your own essays.

There will be six sessions of two hours each starting 6.30 pm at Xavier Institute of Communication (xaviercomm.org).

Important dates

The workshop will be held on March, 3, 10, 17, 23, 31 and April, 7, 2016.

How to apply

Interested candidates can register and pay at Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai and collect reading and writing assignments for the first class.

Fee for the programme is Rs 5,500.

Contact

Phone: 022- 22621366 or 22621639 or email: renu@rediffmail.com

About Renu Balakrishnan

Renu Balakrishnan has written and published short stories and a novel -- Four Aleys. She has conducted writing workshops for writers and teachers in schools and colleges.

She's attended a Master’s in Education course at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and Creative Writing programmes at the New School. New York.

Her interests include releasing the creative spirit in people.

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