Creative writing workshop

The workshop takes place at the Waterfront Theatre School in Port Road, Cape Town on Wednesday evenings from 6pm until 9pm on November 11, 18, 25 and December 2, with reading of short stories written during the workshop on Saturday, December 5 from 12 noon until 4pm.

The workshop is ideal for anyone who needs a jump start and take that step forward in writing creatively. It explores the writing process and deconstructs writing fiction, non-fiction and journalism.

The Write Voice is ideal for first-time writers who would like to define their writing skills, and also recommended for seasoned writers who are trapped in the web of re-writes and unfinished projects, or lost in the maze of the daunting writing process.

During the workshop the writers will write a short story that will be read to the group at the last session.

Your coach is Daniel Dercksen, the driving force behind the successful independent training initiative The Writing Studio, who is a published film and theatre journalist for 30 years and has been teaching workshops in creative writing, playwriting and screenwriting throughout South Africa the past 19 years.

Our Proud Graduates include novelists Lauren Beukes (Zoo City, The Shining Girl) Gary Hirson (The Magic That is Ours and Calm in Storm)and Consuelo Roland (who received acclaim for her Lady Limbo Novel, and was Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award and received an Honorary mention for the Olive Schreiner Prize for her novel The Good Cemetery Guide), and Tenda Madima, whose collection of short stories, Ri khou dzedza, won the African Heritage Literature Award in 1997, and A Victim of Circumstances won the South African Translator's Institute Literary Award in 2000.

Date: 11 November 2015 to 05 December 2015
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Venue: The Waterfront Theatre School, Cape Town
Cost: R950, inclusive of extensive notes and reading of short story

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The Waterfront Theatre School is situated in Port Road near the Waterfront.