Certificate Weekend Course in Creative Writing
About
Writing, understandably, is the most potent and yet the simplest form of human expression. Unlike speech, writing transcends the barriers of space and time. Therefore, if you can write well, you have true power at your disposal. That is why courses in creative writing can open a new world for you. The craft of writing has multiple dimension - poetry, novels, short stories, non-fiction books, screenwriting, plays, journalistic articles, travelogues and experimental pieces. Our creative writing workshops will take you there and let you explore.
Every human mind conjures up images but a creative human mind is just not satisfied merely weaving visuals. It wants to express the thoughts through a medium that has appreciable aesthetic appeal. This creative writing course helps give vent to your creative urges.
Writing is also a skill that can help you in your daily life. Watch your communication skills flower in the creative writing workshops. If you have a creative mind and would love to express your ideas through beautiful literary pieces, then this course is for you. The approach of this creative writing course will be highly professional with plenty of practical creative writing sessions that will inculcate the requisite skills in you. Come and discover the writer in yourself…
Skills Developed
- Write Better
- Think Creatively
- Get Interesting Ideas
- Develop plot and character
- Improve Communication and Expression
- Explore different genres
Curriculum
- Essentials of writing
- How to develop writing skills
- Getting Ideas
- Using Imagination
- Stream of consciousness
- Different types of writing
- Feature Writing
- Short Story
- Novels
- Flash Fiction
- Poetry
- Travel Writing
- Writing for Media
- Structuring your ideas and writing
- Editing
Facilitators
RAMESH MENON
Ramesh Menon is an award winning journalist. He is a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. He cannot imagine life without writing. His first book written in 1985, "Caste and Communal Timebomb", chronicled caste and communal conflagrations in Gujarat. His next book will be published by Harper Collins deals with the life story of one of India's biggest realtors. He writes for a host of publications like Reader's Digest, DNA, Mint, Prevention and others. He is a regular contributor to www.indiatogether.org that is India's best development writing website. He has directed and produced numerous documentary films that deals with social issues and environment. He is also involved in the making of various educational programmes for UGC. He lectures at various journalism schools. He is also a corporate trainer in soft skills. He has earlier worked for India Today, The Times of India, Business India Television, TV Today and rediff.com.
ABHA IYENGAR
Abha Iyengar is an award winning internationally published writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, magazines and literary journals, both in print and online. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology contest winner. Her story, 'The High Stool' was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. She has won several literary contests. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and 'Riyaz' Writer's Group at The British Council, New Delhi. Abha is a social activist who is against all forms of aggression and injustice.
She has contributed to popular anthologies in the U.S. 'The Simple Touch of Fate', 'Knit Lit Too' and 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' are some of these. Her work has appeared in literary journals like Moon dance, Raven Chronicles, Gowanus Books, Tattoo Highway,Tryst3, Bewildering Stories, Kritya, river babble, Enlightened Practice, Poet Works Press, Fabulist, Door Knobs and Body Paint, Citizen 32, Arabesques Review among others. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India, Writing in India, and 'Riyaz' Writer's Group at The British Council, New Delhi. She is an editor with two publishing houses.
MRIDULA KOSHY
Mridula Susan Koshy is an Indian writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, "If It Is Sweet". (Westland/Tranquebar, May 2009). The book won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for 2009 and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Prize. Before returning to India, she worked as a trade union and community organiser in the US. Her stories have appeared in Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the UK and Italy. She is currently working on a novel. She has lived a very colourful life as a cashier at Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a professional advocate of multicultralism, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organizer and community organizer. Harper Collins will shortly publish her latest novel that is set in Kerala and in the United States.
AMITABHA BAGCHI
Amitabha Bagchi's first novel, "Above Average", was published by Harper Collins India in 2007 and sold more than 25,000 copies. He was born in Delhi and did his schooling and college from there. The last few years of school were a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992. He later completed his PhD in Computer Science in the United States. He now teaches Computer Science at IIT, Delhi.
K.G. SREENIVAS
K.G. Sreenivas is a senior editor who directs publishing operations at IANS-Publishing, the outsource publishing vertical of IANS. He has had diverse professional experience in the media – radio, print, newswire and publishing, having worked with leading national and international media houses like The Indian Express Group, the erstwhile BridgeNews, Cambridge European Associates UK (Managing Editor, Asia Pacific), PressWire News UK (Features Editor, South Asia), and Pearson Education India (Managing Editor, ELT & School). Sreenivas has also led offshore publishing operations for clients based in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Europe.
A postgraduate in Literature & Linguistics and an M.Phil in International Relations from JNU, he has taught at universities and management institutes as a Visiting Faculty and has conducted communication training programmes for corporates like Tata Consultancy Services. Sreenivas writes occasional poetry and is presently working on his first book of fiction.
Admission & Fees
Admission Procedure
There will be an entrance exam to test your aptitude for the creative writing course.
Seats
Limited
Course begins
4th Feb 2012.
NOTE: All participants will be intimated of the exact date the course begins via e-mail.
Duration
3 Months (72 Hours across 24 Sessions)
Classes: Twice in a week, (Saturday and Sunday)
Fees
Entrance Test Fee: INR 500/-
Course Fees: INR 14,000/-
About
ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING SHORT TERM COURSE
Literary awards, literature festivals, international publishers and bestseller lists- Indian writing has never been more fashionable. Or more competitive. Anyone who has attempted any form of creative writing knows that the difference between "adequate" and "remarkable" writing lies in sparkling imagination, razor-sharp craft and endless perseverance.
Taking these into consideration, we have now designed an Advanced Creative Writing Course. The course is aimed at amateur writers who have been attempting to write seriously but sense a need for critique and guidance. It is structured to help participants leap to the next step with more training in professional writing.
Emphasis will be laid on tips and prompts, exercises, and the use of certain writing techniques that help develop the story. It includes extended periods of immersive writing and mentoring. It will involve taking an idea and developing it into a story. It will also deal with non-fiction. Basically, it will deal with a deeper exploration into the craft and the mind of the writer.
Reading material will be distributed and discussed. Discussions on style and structure and why and how a story works will help writers understand the craft better. Hence, participants will be required to read a lot and write a lot more. They will then get their work reviewed.
At the end of the workshops, depending on the participant's degree of commitment and involvement, each one should have at least a couple of stories ready for sending out as submissions.
Attempts will be made to seriously address the problems and questions that arise during the writing process. The idea is to keep participants fruitfully engaged so that they are encouraged to keep writing and improve their craft.
Skills Developed
- Writing gets more focussed
- Learning how to turn creative thoughts into expression.
- Sharper imagination
- Better Characterisation
- Using techniques and tools to better
- Polishing craft with a mentor
- Learning the discipline of writing daily
- Using criticism positively to produce better work
- Professional writing skills and attitudes
Curriculum
- Sharpening observation skills to write better
- Sharpening imaginative skills
- Using Tips and Prompts
- Developing the Plot-step by step
- Developing characters and sub-characters
- Structuring your ideas and writing
- Reworking plots and structure
- Discovering one's personal narrative
- Making submission to suit different markets
- Compiling work for publication
- Developing marketing skills
- Editing
- Rewriting
Facilitators
RAMESH MENON
Ramesh Menon is an award winning journalist. He is a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. He cannot imagine life without writing. His first book written in 1985, “Caste and Communal Timebomb”, chronicled caste and communal conflagrations in Gujarat. His next, "Whatever the Odds-The incredible story behind DLF" is the autobiography of K.P. Singh and will be published by Harper Collins. He writes for a host of publications like Reader’s Digest, DNA, Mint, Prevention, Governance Now and others. He is a regular contributor to www.indiatogether.org that is India’s best development journalism website.
He has directed and produced numerous documentary films that deals with social issues and environment. He is also involved in the making of various educational programmes for UGC. He lectures at various journalism schools like MCRC at Jamia and Symbioisis International University. He is also a corporate trainer in soft skills. He has earlier worked for India Today, The Times of India, Business India Television, TV Today and rediff.com.
ABHA IYENGAR
Abha Iyengar is an award winning internationally published writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, magazines and literary journals, both in print and online. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology contest winner. Her story, 'The High Stool' was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. She has won several literary contests. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and 'Riyaz' Writer's Group at The British Council, New Delhi. Abha is a social activist who is against all forms of aggression and injustice.
She has contributed to popular anthologies in the U.S. 'The Simple Touch of Fate', 'Knit Lit Too' and 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' are some of these. Her work has appeared in literary journals like Moon dance, Raven Chronicles, Gowanus Books, Tattoo Highway,Tryst3, Bewildering Stories, Kritya, river babble, Enlightened Practice, Poet Works Press, Fabulist, Door Knobs and Body Paint, Citizen 32, Arabesques Review among others. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India, Writing in India, and 'Riyaz' Writer's Group at The British Council, New Delhi. She is an editor with two publishing houses.
AMITABHA BAGCHI
Amitabha Bagchi's first novel, "Above Average", was published by Harper Collins India in 2007 and sold more than 25,000 copies. He was born in Delhi and did his schooling and college from there. The last few years of school were a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992. He later completed his PhD in Computer Science in the United States. He now teaches Computer Science at IIT, Delhi.
K.G. SREENIVAS
K.G. Sreenivas is a senior editor who directs publishing operations at IANS-Publishing, the outsource publishing vertical of IANS. He has had diverse professional experience in the media – radio, print, newswire and publishing, having worked with leading national and international media houses like The Indian Express Group, the erstwhile BridgeNews, Cambridge European Associates UK (Managing Editor, Asia Pacific), PressWire News UK (Features Editor, South Asia), and Pearson Education India (Managing Editor, ELT & School). Sreenivas has also led offshore publishing operations for clients based in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Europe.
A postgraduate in Literature & Linguistics and an M.Phil in International Relations from JNU, he has taught at universities and management institutes as a Visiting Faculty and has conducted communication training programmes for corporates like Tata Consultancy Services. Sreenivas writes occasional poetry and is presently working on his first book of fiction.
Admission & Fees
Admission Procedure
There will be a three hour entrance exam to test your aptitude for the advanced creative writing course.
Seats
Fifteen
Course begins
Late November 2011.
NOTE: All participants will be intimated of the exact date the course begins via e-mail.
Duration
3 Months (72 Hours across 24 Sessions)
Classes: Twice in a week, (Saturday and Sunday)
Fees
Entrance Test Fee: INR 500/-
Course Fees: INR 18,000/-
