Life writing with Susmita Bhattacharya

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This two week course will help you to bring your experiences to life on the page. Through weekly exercises, closer reading and discussion, we will peel back the layers to see what lies at the heart of a personal essay and produce some work of our own. 

About the course

Course Fee

U.K: 125 GBP
United States : 185 USD

Course Dates

June 3rd, 2023
June 10th, 2023

**All Sessions Will Take Place at 09:00 AM Pacific Standard Time or 16:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time

Course Length

2 weeks - June 3rd & 10th, 2023

Weekly Study

Two Hours

Testimonial

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Louise Page

Student
Contemporary non-fiction was once a shadowy alleyway in my eyes. But Susmita’s passionate presentation of the artistry and craftsmanship in her workshops, also using a wide variety of key works within the genre as examples, empowered me to wield fiction writing techniques to produce confident professional pieces including a memoir and travelogue. It was a revelation. Thanks to her, contemporary non-fiction is now an enticing sunlight path I cannot wait to explore further.

Course summary

This two week course will help you to bring your experiences to life on the page. We will look at personal essays by Jo Ann Beard, Salman Rushdie, George Orwell and Jhumpa Lahiri among others to see how they penned their essays on the self and the world around them. Through weekly exercises, closer reading and discussion, we will peel back the layers to see what lies at the heart of a personal essay and hopefully produce some work of our own. 

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
Current Status
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Price
125.00
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This two week course will help you to bring your experiences to life on the page. Through weekly exercises, closer reading and discussion, we will peel back the layers to see what lies at the heart of a personal essay and produce some work of our own. 

The Tutor

Susmita Bhattacharya

Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer living in the UK.  Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian, 2015), was long listed at the 2018 Mumbai Film Festival. Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing, 2018), won the 2019 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection and was featured on BBC Radio 4. She won the Memoir Writing Prize at the Winchester Writers’ Festival in 2016 and has been commissioned to write creative nonfiction for various platforms including radio. She teaches creative writing in universities and in the community and is a mentor for underrepresented writers. 

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