Kickstarting Fiction – an Online Masterclass with Wyl Menmuir

SOLD OUT! An additional event on 20 May is available to book below.

An online masterclass with author Wyl Menmuir.
Tickets £15 available here

Whether your aim is to write a novel or the shortest of short stories, Kickstart Your Fiction will equip you with a stash of tools to help your writing shine. During this short course, we will look at ways to get started and techniques to keep you on the right track from the first word to the last. This course is ideal for those starting out, though will be useful to writers who have already made a start.

Wyl Menmuir is a novelist, editor and literary consultant based in Cornwall. His first novel, The Many, was nominated for the Man-Booker Prize and was an Observer Best Fiction of the Year pick and his second novel, Fox Fires will be published in early 2020. Wyl’s short fiction has appeared in Best British Short Stories, Elementum Journal, Pipeline and has been published by Nightjar Press and National Trust.

He has written for Radio 4’s Open Book, The Guardian and The Observer, and is a regular contributor to the journal Elementum.

Born in Stockport in 1979, Wyl now lives in Cornwall with his wife and two children. He is co-creator of the Cornish writing centre, The Writers’ Block, and works with Arvon Foundation, National Literacy Trust and Centre for Literacy in Primary Education on national literacy programmes, as well as lecturer in creative writing at Falmouth University and Manchester Metropolitan University.

This workshop will be run via Zoom, spaces are limited.