How To Edit Your Writing- FREE SAMPLE

Are you interested in learning new approaches to editing your writing? This four-week online course will help you explore new techniques for analysis and creativity in the editing process. Books, like films, are made in the editing.

About the course

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Weekly Study

Testimonial

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PENG SHEPHARD

WOLF EYES

Litro published my short story Wolf Eyes in 2011 and I have not looked back since.

Course summary

Get started with this short creative exercise:

  1. Write a first-person description of a walk through a city – an imaginary city, or a real one you’ve never been to.
  2. Edit it down to 50 words, to include elements of time lapse, movement and changes of feeling.

If you enjoyed the exercise, sign up for the course today!

How you will learn

Our team of editors, novelists and scriptwriters will provide a helping hand – making you a more confident writer.

Thanks to our status as a platform for discovering the best literary talent – having helped kick-start the careers of several literary writers to acclaim, such as Nikesh Shukla, Naomi Alderman, Peng Shepherd, Clare Wigfall, Stuart Evers, Inua Ellams and others on the Man Booker Prize longlists – we have far-reaching external networks that create opportunities for your work to get in front of editors, agents and publishers. You will learn through:

  • Generating and pitching ideas
  • Submissions best practices and feedback
  • Live readings & performances
  • Writing and sharing your work online
  • Specialist workshops
  • Live salons

Are you interested in learning new approaches to editing your writing? This four-week online course will help you explore new techniques for analysis and creativity in the editing process. Books, like films, are made in the editing.

The Tutor

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright, broadcaster and essayist. His London novel Vauxhall (2013) won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize, Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair and was runner-up for the McKitterick Prize. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow in European and African performance at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at City & Guilds of London Art School. Sample essays can be found online at The Blazing Light In August Granta Magazine and An Informal History of the Male Nude BBC Radio 3.

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