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AIMING HIGHER: Poetry and Fiction

The Aiming Higher Poetry and Fiction course, 25-30th October 2010, gave writers an opportunity to work with Sara Maitland and Graham Mort (plus guest writer, novelist Tristan Hughes). Ty Newydd National Writers' Centre offered this week-long course in partnership with Lancaster University, with a view to helping writers who would like to apply for entry to postgraduate creative writing courses. Whether writers specialised in poetry or prose, and whatever their thematic focus, the course aimed to give them a new ambition in finding ways of developing their work to a higher standard. From the lyric poem to prose fiction, it explored techniques in the use of language and structural effects that establish the vital relationship between writers and readers. Its focus was on the way that readers ‘construct’ the experience of the finished work and the ways that writers can anticipate, understand and control this process. Finding common ground between literary forms, it was of particular – though not exclusive - interest to those writers considering developing their work through a Higher Education course and featured seminars and workshops based on methods from those programmes. The course will be offered again in 2011.