To kick off, here is what the first day will shape up like:
CLECKHEATON LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2016
THURSDAY 21 APRIL
10-12 Iain Pattison – Short story
workshop
Iain Pattison is the author of the best
seller “Cracking the Short Story Market”
(Writers Bureau Books) and is a busy competition judge and creative writing
tutor. His stories are widely published on both sides of the Atlantic and have
appeared in Woman, Woman’s Own, Take A Break, Chat, Woman’s Weekly, My Weekly,
Writers Forum, Acclaim Magazine, and The New Writer plus numerous US and
Canadian anthologies. They’ve also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
His eclectic output covers everything from
romance to crime, gothic horror to dark fantasy but his first love is comedy
and his latest project is the off-beat “Quintessentially
Quirky Tales” humour series. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0182NXE8G/ref=series_rw_dp_sw
In this fast-moving workshop Iain reveals the
secrets of creating sizzling short stories guaranteed to impress fiction
editors and wow judges. Topics covered include: pulling off the perfect twist
ending, snaring your audience in the first ten words, plotting made simple,
creating ideas from thin air, dialogue demystified and common mistakes to
avoid.
Whether you’re a total beginner or an
experienced writer looking to hone your prose, Iain promises you’ll never look
at short stories in quite the same way ever again. Be prepared for great advice
and terrible jokes...
Check out Iain’s website at www.iainpattison.com
1-3 Clive Dale – Storybuilding
class (schools) Bronte
Clive Dale – Local children’s writer (works include Clive the Magic Camel: At the Zoo and Johnny and the Rice Pudding) www.goodreads.com/author/show/7035116.Clive_Dale Creative Writing workshop. Clive has been telling stories to children and teens for over 50 years in schools, youth organisations and churches.
Clive will start the workshop with his story 'Clive the Magic Camel at the Zoo' explaining the criteria to gradually build up the frame/skeleton of their own story. Each child will then be able to use the frame to write sentences to create their own miniature story, like the Bronte miniature, which they will be able to take home with them.
1-3 Iain Pattison – Horror/fantasy
workshop
Horror and
fantasy – the midnight arts revealed.
Iain Pattison
is best known as a humorist – penning pastiches, skits and comic short stories.
But he has a darker side. Under the pen- name Jay Raven, he writes gothic horror and dark fantasy; unsettling tales that delve into the macabre
and the mysterious.
Specialising
in historical chillers and twisted fairy tales, his work has appeared in a raft
of American and Canadian anthologies, transporting readers back to a cruel
world of hangmen and harlots, mad rulers and cackling witches.
And in this
workshop he lifts the coffin lid on the secrets of writing creepy tales and
spell-binding fantasies. From shaping
truly frightening monsters, to making magic believable, he demonstrates the
techniques for sending a shiver down the spine, and making even the most
familiar tales fiendishly fresh.
Topics
covered include – why when it comes to blood and gore, less is more. Avoiding
hackneyed plots and settings. Creating villains we can care about. How to
inject menace and jeopardy. Why we like to be frightened. Giving vampires and
werewolves a modern makeover.
Whether
you’re enthralled by Game of Thrones or want to hammer horror, learn how to
make your fantasy writing dreams into a reality.
Committing the Perfect Murder
How do crime writers heighten and sustain tension? What role
does pace play in a good thriller? What do you need to plan the perfect
murder? And can you get away with it?
Amazon award winning author, Alison Taft brings us a crime
writing workshop.
Alison
Taft is a
crime writer, whose latest novel, My Time Has Come, was published last
year. She is currently the writer-in-residence at Headingley Lit
Fest and won second prize in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in
2013. In October 2015 her first novel, Our Father Who Art Out
There...Somewhere was selected in the Yorkshire Post’s top twelve books
that best define Yorkshire, written since the millennium. She lives in
Leeds.
7-9 Crime Panel – Leigh Russell,
Alison Taft, and Helen Cadbury
"Three
crime writers discuss their work and why they turned to crime, with readings
and an opportunity to ask questions. The writers will also be available to sign
books and meet readers after the
event.” Helen
Cadbury (see image above)
Helen
Cadbury is a British crime writer whose debut, To Catch a Rabbit, was
joint winner of the Northern Crime Competition 2012. First published by Moth
Publishing, it was re-released in a new edition by
Allison & Busby in January 2015 and selected as an Amazon Rising
Star. WHSmith readers voted To Catch a Rabbit as no. 12 in top
crime books they would like to see on screen and in October 2015, it was
selected as one of the Yorkshire Post’s top 13 Yorkshire books since the
millennium. Her second novel, Bones in the Nest, was published by
Allison and Busby in July 2015 and both books were recently optioned for TV by
Red Planet Pictures. Before turning to writing fiction, Helen was a
professional actor and teacher, including several years teaching in the prison
service. She also writes poetry and plays.
After many years teaching English in secondary school,
internationally bestselling author Leigh Russell now writes crime fiction full
time for No Exit Press. Published in English and in translation throughout
Europe, her Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson titles have appeared on many
bestseller lists, including #1 on kindle. Leigh's work has been nominated for
several major awards, including the CWA New Blood Dagger and CWA Dagger in the
Library, and her series are in development for television with Avalon
Television Ltd.
Journey to Death, set in the Seychelles, is the first
title in her Lucy Hall series published by Thomas and Mercer.
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