Creative Writing - Writing a Children's Story - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

About this course

Building on How to Write for Children, where we looked at today’s children’s books, this course gives you the tools and knowledge to tackle writing your own stories for children. Now you know which age group you want to write for, it’s time to create lively characters which reflect our inclusive and diverse society and blend them with exciting action which builds to a satisfying ending. 

• This is an intermediate course. It is helpful to have done the previous Inspire course How to Write for Children.          

We will have a refresher of Ages and Stages – children’s books from picture books to young adult novels (YA). Explore the age groups and begin to focus on which age group(s) you want to write for.  We will cover the importance of dialogue and action in children’s stories and techniques for building age-appropriate characters.  How to develop feedback skills in a group 

Resources to bring to this course

• Pen and notepad preferably A4 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course  please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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