Past Courses

From Life to Writing: Explore Creative Non-fiction, Including Travel Writing, Memoir and the Persona

Be introduced into the fascinating possibilities of creative non-fiction. Details

Alohomora! Create Your Own Fairy Tale

Learn to convert ordinary settings into a fairyland. Unleash your creative power and construct a fantastical world with your own pen. Details

Crafting for Comics with Lewis Trondheim

Craft stories through comics Details

Editing for the International English Market

Anya Goncharova, from Penguin Random House North Asia, will take participants through the stages of acquisitions, content edits, line edits, and final proofs, showing how each phase in the work is managed. Details

Editing for the Mainland Chinese Market (适合中国市场的编辑)

Li Yuyao, Executive Editor of Foreign Literature and Arts, will offer suggestions regarding the textual norms of English-to-Chinese translation and how to better align the translated texts with the reading habits of Chinese readers. Details

Tarian Pena: Mencoret Luahan Hati (The Dancing Pen: Scribbling the Voices from Within)

This workshop will be conducted in Malay language and suitable for secondary school students. Details

The New Self-Publishing – How the entrepreneurial writer can challenge publishing’s status quo

This workshop will look at taking advantage of this publishing revolution and avoiding any pitfalls that might come your way. Participants will leave with a strategic plan to develop their presence, to grow their potential readership and to take their publishing projects from idea to paperback, hardback or eBook.

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Good, Clean Copy – How good editing can make you a great writer

Participants will explore and put into practice a variety of editing techniques and develop a new editing-focused approach to their work. Details

Masterclass on Advanced Copy-editing and Proofreading for Fiction and Non-fiction

In this two-day workshop, participants will work at an advanced level with a variety of text types, and hone their techniques for ensuring that each element of the text is the shape it should be Details

Show, Don’t Tell - Know how to let your writing flourish

The workshop will consider the use of exposition and descriptive writing as well as how to reveal character, plot and theme in a manner that evokes feeling and keeps the reader engaged!. Details

Improvising Stories - Stories with Structure!

Learn techniques in playing games and telling the stories orally, to trigger your imagination and memories which you will then use to create stories Details

From Pitch to Publication Masterclass

Literary agents will help to demystify the publication process and give the authors of completed manuscripts invaluable tips on how best to present and pitch their work to publishers. Details

Becoming a Successful Literary Translator

Shelly Bryant, an experienced translator will address challenges unique to literary translation as well as provide insights to the literary translation industry particularly the China publishing market. Details

Introduction to Literary Translation

This session will cover key questions related to the process of literary translation such as the making of a literary translation, the difficulties involved and the making of the translator. Details

Drawing for a Living: Opportunities & Challenges

This fun and interactive course is designed for illustrators wanting to break into the exciting business of freelance illustration Details