We are thrilled to be offering a new round of Clare’s Part Two Imagination Unfurled course. Workshops will continue in a similar vein as in Part One, with a balance of critical discussion and guided exercises to inspire new work and creativity. You’ll be challenged to explore unfamiliar techniques and genres that you might not have previ- ously considered, such as dystopian fiction and writing in a historical context. You’ll also have the chance to get to grips with some thoroughly unlikeable characters, as well as exploring how to mine your own experience for inspiration. Encouragement and guidance will be given to help you with shaping your ideas into fully developed writing and, new to this course, you will be given an invaluable opportunity to work- shop a piece of your own work with the group. Clare’s workshops have a proven track record of inspiring her students to produce award-winning, publishable writing. The course will be surprising, it will be fun, and at times it will be demanding, but what is guaranteed is that once again you will end it with a notebook crammed full of words and ideas. As you already know from experience, it’s quite certain that Clare’s work- shops will stimulate your imagination; where you let that imagination take you now is up to you!
Part Two is designed for students who have already taken Clare’s IMAGINATION UNFURLED – PART ONE course
Classes will be taught via Zoom, so an electronic device (PC/tablet/smart phone) with a good internet connection and audio/video capability will be re- quired.
A graduate of the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Masters Programme, Clare has taught writing workshops all over Europe, including for the Arvon Foundation, the BBC, CIEE, and is soon to begin her fourth semester as Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bard College Berlin; she is approachable, generous with her experience, and her teaching has an energy that never fails to inspire her students. Suitable for advanced writers to total beginners, this special workshop series guarantees to inspire. It also offers an unbeatable opportunity to work with an author described as “so good she gives you chills” (The Guardian) and the author of tales “sorrowful, disturbing and darkly beautiful” (London Review of Books). Her debut story collection The Loudest Sound and Nothing was published by Faber and Faber to critical acclaim in 2007 and the following year its opening story was given the BBC National Short Award. She is currently completing a new collection of stories and is under commission following that to write a novel set in early 20th century British Malaya. In 2017 she was was awarded an eight-month residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and in the spring of 2018, Edition Solitude published a German translation of selected sto- ries from her first collection entitled Alles, was ich über Zahlen weiss.
https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/clare-wigfall
