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Arvon Online Masterclass: Telling true-life tales

How do you turn human stories into compelling prose? How do you help combine interviews into a larger narrative, or use archive sources to bring long lost voices to life? What can these voices bring to your storytelling, and our understanding of your subject? In this two hour online Masterclass join writer John Grindrod to explore ways in which telling people’s stories – your own or someone else’s – can help us unlock new ways of seeing the world around us.

He will share tips on getting the most out of an interview, developing your voice as a counterpoint to your interviewees and sources, and structuring these different individual narratives within a broader context. Be inspired too by examples of extraordinary life writing, with exercises to get you to look at your work in new ways and help free you up to tackle your subject with creativity and insight. Tickets here.

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13 July

Arvon residential non-fiction course: Writing Lives