Enrol for a creative writing workshop in Mumbai

The course will help you turn your thoughts and ideas 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.

Features of the workshop

• Understand the genre and the rules of writing creative non-fiction.
• Use the techniques of writing in scenes, using dialogue, developing characters, describing settings and other aspects of creative nonfiction writing.
• Analyse the structure of the personal essay and read, critique and appreciate elegant examples.  
• And you will write your own essays.

How to apply

Interested candidates can register and pay at the Xavier Institute of Communication (xaviercomm.org) and collect reading and writing assignments for the first class.

Fee for the programme is Rs 5,500.

Important dates

The final dates will be announced soon.

(Note: The November/December 2015 workshop has been cancelled)

Contact

Phone: 022- 2262 1366 or 2262 1639 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 has 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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