Currently offering mentoring packages at £150 for 4 weeks.
Treat yourself or someone else for Christmas!
Sarah can work with you on your novel, collection or individual pieces. Any level of writer is welcome.
Packages involve 4 weeks of bespoke mentoring with detailed feedback once a week and an aftercare service.
To book, send a PayPal payment to sarahjanedobbs@gmail.com
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For those awaiting news of our scholarship programme, we’re running slightly behind. Notifications ASAP, Thursday at the latest. Sarah
Cake! And writing. Come along to our new creative writing workshops at Serendipitea, Chorlton.
These workshops are cheaper than our city centre ones, to allow you to indulge in their lovely offer of a pot of tea and cake for £3.95. We’ll be doing lots of writing exercises, lots of feedback and lots of chatting. Hope to see you there.
To book a place, join and RSVP at our writing group here: http://meetup.com/writingmanchester
Manchester Writing workshop
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Friends Meeting House
Room 4, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS, Manchester (edit map)
Spooky stories – Halloween special edition.
Our writing workshop this week will have a dark side. Plus cake.
Just bring yourselves and your pen and paper – or however you like to write. If you want to bring work to share that would be great too. There are plugs in the rooms.
Remember, all levels of writers welcome – expertise and freshness compliments each other. Hope to see you all soon.
Sarah
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How much? £10
Book here: http://meetup.com/WritingManchester
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 201
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friends Meeting House
Room 4, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS, Manchester (edit map)
Price: GBP10.00/per person
Refund policy
This week’s workshop is on voice, humour and masculinity.
Bring work in progress (optional!) for the second part of the session.
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As ever, I’ll provide the snacks and exercises, you’ll bring yourselves and your pen and paper – or however you like to write. There are plugs in the rooms.
Remember, all levels of writers welcome – expertise and freshness compliments each other. Hope to see you all again soon.
Sarah
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Book here: http://bookwhen.com/WritingManchester
Sunday, 28 Sep 2014 For 90 days
£50 (£350 for traditional online study)
This is the self-study version of our How to: Write a Novel course.
You will follow the same itinerary as our online students and can either participate in the self-study forum for feedback, take work to your writer’s group, or be your own critic.
At the end of the course, you’ll receive a free quick manuscript appraisal of your novel, worth £40
Further details:
Everyone’s got a novel in them… have you? So what’s the difference between novels that languish in dusty drawers and those in the Waterstones display window? For most, the answer is study, perseverance and a helping hand.
This 3 month online course aims to equip you with the things every novelist needs: The idea, the ability and the guidance.
You will take part in weekly peer to peer writing workshops and gain first-rate tuition from Guardian Not the Booker nominee, Dr Sarah Dobbs, author of Killing Daniel.
We have links with publishers, editors and agents and will recommend selected students.
Book now – http://bookwhen.com/WritingManchester
Week 2 – The First Page.
Week 3 – Character as plot.
Week 4 – Throughlines and timelining: how to plan
Week 5 – Subplot and minor characters
Week 6 – When and how to research. Mid-course review.
Week 7 – Dynamic dialogue
Week 8 – Voice, tone and POV
Week 9 – Genre and description: the senses
Week 10 – Drawing the strands to a close; endings
Week 11 – Editing: redrafting with different lenses
Week 12 – Review and where to go from here: the Agent, the covering letter & synopsis.
Everybody needs it and most of us have had it. If not, we deserve it. But what is the riddle of ‘it’?
Simply, someone believing in you and offering a helping hand.
We want to hear from young writers with a real desire to write who just need a little jiggling and support to unlock their potential. In return, we’ll offer you a free place on our 12 week online novel course (worth £350), a 3 month and 6 month ‘check-up’ to view work and plan and achieve some writing goals and heavily subsidised mentoring/editing for the next year.
‘Young writers’ describes anyone fairly new to writing – there is no age limit or maximum.
To apply, please send sample writing (up to 5,000) to sarahjanedobbs@gmail.com and a covering letter briefly describing your experience to date. Writers may have had one novel published with an independent publisher. If in doubt, check with us.
Deadline: 1 November, 2014
The chosen writer needs to be available to take up their scholarship from mid January 2015. The winner will be announced 14 December, 2014
Last chance to book or 12 week course, starting Monday 27th September, was £350, now £175)
Book now – http:/bookwhen.com/writingmanchester
Everyone’s got a novel in them… have you? So what’s the difference between novels that languish in dusty drawers and those in the Waterstones display window? For most, the answer is study, perseverance and a helping hand.
This 3 month online course aims to equip you with the things every novelist needs: The idea, the ability and the guidance.
You will take part in weekly peer to peer writing workshops and gain first-rate tuition from Guardian Not the Booker nominee, Dr Sarah Dobbs, author of Killing Daniel (Unthank Books) and editor of English Langage, Literature and Creative Writing (Anthem Press)
We have links with publishers, editors and agents and will recommend selected students.
Week 1 – Introduction – inspiration and ideas.
Week 2 – The First Page.
Week 3 – Character as plot.
Week 4 – Throughlines and timelining: how to plan
Week 5 – Subplot and minor characters
Week 6 – When and how to research. Mid-course review.
Week 7 – Dynamic dialogue
Week 8 – Voice, tone and POV
Week 9 – Genre and description: the senses
Week 10 – Drawing the strands to a close; endings
Week 11 – Editing: redrafting with different lenses
Week 12 – Review and where to go from here: the Agent, the covering letter & synopsis.
Book now – http:/bookwhen.com/writingmanchester
A practical, easy-to-read guide that aims to help undergraduate students cope with the demands of English and Creative Writing degrees. Written by lecturers and industry professionals with decades of experience in professional writing and higher education, this book also includes hints and tips from previous students.
£13.99, Anthem Press
‘This indispensable guide to language, literature and creative writing for undergraduates demystifies degree-level study, sets out what to expect from a degree programme, and gives useful insights into study skills. A must-read for worried students.’ —Zoe Lambert, Lancaster University
And we’re back…
Though I hope the summer hasn’t gone quite yet, our little hiatus draws to a close in September when we’ll be back with our regular writing workshop on every other Tuesday.
Hopefully you’ve all got some interesting stories to share!
As ever, I’ll provide the snacks and exercises, you’ll bring yourselves and your pen and paper – or however you like to write. There are plugs in the rooms.
Remember, all levels of writers welcome – expertise and freshness compliments each other. Hope to see you all again soon.
Sarah
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To book: http://www.meetup.com/WritingManchester/events/199344102/
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