Centre for Lifelong Learning Online Catalogue

D114: Creative Writing for Beginners

Creative Writing on campus/satellite

Unleash your inner storyteller! Whether you are eager to craft fiction, share personal experiences, or simply explore your creativity through writing, this class is the perfect launchpad. Guided by a seasoned writer and editor with many years' experience of mentoring aspiring authors, you'll dive into the craft through practical exercises, interactive tutorials, and lively group discussions. Please note this class is no longer credit-bearing.

The on-campus creative writing courses are designed to follow a learning progression route from beginner to advanced level, although students are welcome to sign up for whatever course they wish, at any level they feel appropriate to their skills. The learning pathway is as follows:

1. Creative Writing for Beginners

2. Taking Your Creative Writing Further 1

3. Keep Writing

4. Creative Writing for Writers: Taking Your Creative Writing Further 2

5. Creative Writing for Writers: Taking Your Creative Writing Further 3

6. Creative Writing: Consolidating Your Skills

Key Information

These classes are aimed at those aged 50 and over.

Tutor: David Pettigrew BA PGDip MPhil (Creative Writing) MPhil (Publishing)

Thu 10/10/2024 - Thu 19/12/2024
Meetings: 10

Thursday (10.00 - 12.00)
GH748, Graham Hills Building, 40 George Street, Glasgow G1 1QE