Sign up for creative writing workshop in Mumbai
February 12, 2016  10:13
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Author Renu Balakrishnan ('I wrote this book on scraps of paper'), who has written and published short stories and a novel, Four Aleys, is organising a creative writing workshop in March and April 2016 at the Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.

The course is designed to help you understand the genre and rules of writing creative non-fiction using the techniques of writing in scenes, using dialogue, developing characters, describing settings and other aspects of creative non-fiction writing.

With this course, you will also be able to analyse the structure of the personal essay and read, critique and appreciate elegant examples. And you will write your own essays.

The course comprises six sessions of two hours each, starting 6.30 pm, on March, 3, 10, 17, 23, 31 and April, 7, 2016, and will be held at the Xavier Institute of Communication (xaviercomm.org).

The fee for the course is Rs 5,500, and interested candidates can register and pay at the XIC, Mumbai, and collect reading and writing assignments for the first class.

For further details, phone: 022-22621366 or 22621639 or email: renu@rediffmail.com

A little more about Renu Balakrishnan. Apart from having published a novel, she has conducted writing workshops for writers and teachers in schools and colleges, attended a Master's in Education course at the Oxford Brookes University, the UK, and Creative Writing programmes at the New School. New York.
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