The Surreal and the Strange through Prompts: A Generative Workshop
This four-week workshop will walk students through the great surreal prose poets of our age. The tutor, will share his own unique prompts and sample prose poems written to the same prompts, so students can gain insight into the improvisation and editing process. Students will walk away with tips and valuable advice on getting their poems out there.
About the course
Course Fee
125
Course Dates
Course Length
4 weeks September 7 - 28, 2024
Weekly Study
One Hour
Testimonial
Course summary
In this course, writers will be exposed to surreal and strange prose poems by established masters. We will take a look at writers such as James Tate, Marosa di Giorgio, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ray Gonzalez, and Russell Edson. Once we have exposure to some of the great surreal prose poets of our age, Jose will share his own unique prompts and sample prose poems written to the same prompts, so students can gain insight into the improvisation and editing process. Jose will offer stories of his experience with submissions and offer valuable advice to writers.
In this four-week course, students will be encouraged (optional) to share one of their surreal and strange prose poems written in class per week with Jose via email, and he will provide feedback.
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
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The Tutor
Felicia Yap
Felicia Yap is the author of the speculative literary thrillers Future Perfect and Yesterday. Future Perfect (Headline UK, 2021) is a murder mystery set in a near-future Britain where computers can predict how we live and when we will die. Her debut Yesterday (Little Brown USA, 2017) is about a murder that takes place in a parallel universe where people can only remember one day – or two. She has worked as a cell biologist, a war historian, a university lecturer, a technology journalist, a theatre critic, a flea-market trader and a catwalk model. One of The Observer's Rising Stars for Fiction, Felicia is the recipient of the Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in Scotland and the Ledig-Rowohlt Fellowship at Château de Lavigny in Switzerland.
Felicia has extensive teaching experience, having supervised, mentored and provided pastoral care for students at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
