Faber Academy

Developing Your Project, with Helen Jukes

In lively and nourishing company, we’ll work against smooth fixes to engage with the difficulty and delight of longer non-fiction projects. Through structured one-to-one support, readings, independent exercises and group workshops you’ll transform your blocks, clarify your core motivations, and deepen your love of language, process and meaning.

The next step along from 'Writing Creative Non-Fiction (Online)', this course is an opportunity to build your confidence, sharpen your prose and gather multiple perspectives on your work in progress. Students will be supported by tutors throughout the course, and will also have the opportunity to meet an industry professional for a live Q&A.

Writing Creative Non-Fiction, with Helen Jukes

Creative Non-Fiction is a genre as capacious as it is shape-shifting. In this twelve-week, co-tutored course, we’ll throw our scope wide – interrogating what we know and how we know it, and how to write striking, memorable true stories. Digging into the foundational elements of creative nonfiction writing, we’ll grapple with practical and theoretical questions of truth, trust and purpose, and find novel ways of exploring aspects of the world that matter to us most through writing.

“This is definitely one of the best courses I have ever taken, both in terms of the quality of the teaching, and the actual learning experience. Many thanks to both tutors!” - student feedback

“I really enjoyed the collaborative and positive way the tutors ran the course and the way it was structured so that there was lots of time for discussion and reflection. Time just flew by at every session!” - student feedback

Mentoring

I’m currently mentoring a developing writer as part of the Wellcome Trust Non-Fiction Awards, in collaboration with Spread the Word.

If you’d like to discuss mentoring or manuscript feedback, please get in touch.

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