Activities at The Skyros Centre, Greece
Life, Dreams & Fiction with Steve Attridge
Sun 22 - Sun 29 Aug 2021
Life Writing, Dreams & Fiction
Discover new ways of writing about your life. Imaginative ways to tap into the events and experiences, memories and people in your life. Lots of tips and techniques for turning these into powerful fiction or straight autobiography.
This course teaches you ways of finding routes through your life and writing about them convincingly and entertainingly. It also encourages practical ways of looking at dreams that will provide ideas for writing. Very useful for writers of prose, drama and poetry.
Sessions will include: life as story and story as life; the comic and the tragic; structure and story; selecting the right material; yourself as character and characterising yourself; using dreams; becoming a dream figure; asking the right questions of your raw life material; finding the tone and point of view.
By the end of the course you will be a more accomplished writer and teller of your own stories. You may also think of your life differently. For beginners and experienced writers.
What's included?
Steve's Masterclass is held at the Skyros Centre on Skyros island in Greece and runs for three hours per day, 15 hours each week. The price of £815 includes seven nights half board twin shared accommodation in the village or by the sea plus morning yoga and afternoon singing with Phil Saatchi. Single upgrades are available. Chat through the website, call +44 (0)1983 86 55 66 or email holidays@skyros.com to discuss your requirements. Find out more about this holiday here.
About Steve Attridge
Steve Attridge has had over 100 TV scripts produced. Twice a BAFTA nominee, he has also won 3 RTS Awards (for Best Drama), Best Film Award 2 Writer’s Guild Awards and TV film awards.
He has 21 books published, including adult fiction, psychological thrillers, children’s, history, comedy. His novel, The Natural Law, went straight to number one in the Amazon Kindle Singles Bestsellers. He won an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry and a slam poetry award. Nine of his stage plays have been produced and he has performed 2 one man shows at the Edinburgh Festival. This year he had a dramatic reading of his play, MUGS, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, and also a piece on the Boer War published by OUP.
He is currently writing a TV series and a historical novel. He has worked as a Writer and Lecturer all over the world, running Masterclasses, short courses and University Courses, including at Oxford, Warwick and Sheffield. He ran writing workshops at the New York Public library and often runs Guardian Masterclass events.
What people say about Steve and his course:
Really enjoyed this wonderful course. Learned a great deal.
I found this compressed course extremely useful. Practical and good theory base well combined. Lots of sensible and helpful/useful tips. Like the mix of humour and literary references. Steve is an excellent teacher.
Six hours [at The Grange] is a deceptive offering - whole worlds and possibilities can open up - as they have for me this weekend. From on the spot excercises, discussion and reams of instruction, I will return to my desk inspired and emboldened. Steve paces us through terrains of character, structure, dialogue and theme - a whole toolkit from which to move forwards...
Awesome - engaging, thought-provoking - loved it! Thank you so much...
