Intro to Writing Creative Nonfiction

Life Writing. Autofiction. Memoir. Mix it up with hybrid forms & faction. St Thomas taster session with novelist & writer Carmel Doohan. Want to try your hand at creative nonfiction? Learn how to to use the techniques of fiction to get real life down on the page with conviction. Weave research, fact and personal experience together with convincing dramatic scenes, dialogue and characters. Digress with confidence and create the narrative momentum to make your ideas come alive. This is a one-off taster session to assess demand. Six week course (and more) to follow! Tutor: Carmel Doohan's novel Seesaw (CB editions) is described as 'endlessly surprising' and 'provocative' in the Times Literary Suplement and 'inteligent' and 'unexpected' in The Scotsman. It is a novel of fragments, mixing memoir, fiction and nonfiction. Carmel's second novel 'SOUP' - a mix of social history and speculative fiction - will be published in 2027. She also writes and edits creative nonfiction. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, where she taught English Literature. She has taught Creative Writing and Modernism at the University of Edinburgh (SUISS) and was Visiting Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction the University of Wolverhampton. Linktr.ee/carmeldoohan