Creative Writing Masterclass

Masterclass: Crime Fiction and the Short Story

K2 - Room VG11
Keyworth Street
SE1 0AA
United Kingdom

Tuesday, 10 December 2013 from 11:00 to 13:00

In this special Creative Writing Masterclass, three leading British crime novelists discuss the contemporary crime short story, and how to perfect the art of writing in the short form. There will be a buffet lunch where you’ll have a chance to meet the literary panel and pick up some tips on crime writing.

The event is free, including the lunch, but booking is essential as there are limited places.

Event is only open to students and staff at London South Bank University, so please register with your LSBU email.

John Harvey is most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick crime novels, based in the City of Nottingham. He has won numerous CWA Daggers for his work. The final Charlie Resnick novel Darkness, Darkness is due to be published in May 2014.

Alison Joseph is author of the series of novels featuring Sister Agnes, a contemporary detective nun based in South London. Sister Agnes has also appeared in a drama series on BBC Radio 4. Alison has written about twenty works for radio, including The True Story and One Down, which was an interactive daily drama with input via a website.

NJ Cooper’s is author of several series of crime novels, including the Trish Maguire series. Her latest series features forensic psychologist Karen Taylor: No Escape, Lifeblood, Face of the Devil, and Vengeance in Mind.

Book Launch

A new film from one of our former students, Betty Martins

Poetry Meets Biomedicine

What happens when poetry is enmeshed with scientific language? Is it possible to expose the language of scientific sub-cultures, and make that language accessible and inclusive rather than technical and exclusive? How is the engagement with the scientists visible, and how will it cast shadows across the poetry. What are the perceptual implications of presence and proximity within such collaborative creative practices?

These are some of the questions addressed by Poetry meets Biomedicine, a collaborative project between poets and scientists, curated by MA Creative Writing student Dorothy Lehane.

A launch event is being held on 10 October at 7pm at Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London NW3.  Click here for further information and to book a place.

Exhibition tour of ‘Recognising Dorothy Mead’

Thursday 16 May, 7pm
(followed by late opening until 8.30pm)

Philip Vann will discuss Dorothy Mead’s work and give a personal tour of and response to Mead’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery: ‘Recognising Dorothy Mead: David Bomberg, the Slade, and After’, at Borough Road Gallery.

Philip Vann is a writer and art critic whose many publications include Dora Holzhandler, Cyril Power: The Complete Linocuts, Keith Vaughan, and Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century. He has written on Dorothy Mead’s work in both Face to Face and in the exhibition catalogue  for Dorothy Mead’s Boundary Gallery exhibition in 2005.

This event is free, but places are limited -- click here to book.

Twenty Nine Ways to Stay Creative 

http://vimeo.com/24302498

Screentest Festival

More programme info is available online at: www.screentestfest.org.uk.