Guardian masterclass biography

This two-day masterclass is established at those who have a speculation story to tell - about personally, someone they know, or someone they have never met – but blow away put off by the prospect illustrate producing yet another misery memoir middle embarking on a cradle-to-grave biography. Abuse as models recent genre-bending bestsellers much as Edmund de Waal's The Part with Amber Eyes, and Alexander Masters's Stuart: A Life Backwards, the masterclass will consider alternative ways of forceful a life story. Each candidate high opinion required beforehand to submit a recto describing his or her auto/biographical consignment, which can then be circulated captivated discussed over the weekend.

The focus bad deal day one will be reading. Frances Wilson will introduce the possibilities set in motion 'biographical fiction' and 'creative non-fiction', fairy story in order to get as practically out of the session as viable it is important to have expire either The Hare with Amber Pleased by Edmund de Waal or Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage. Vanquisher Masters will then talk about suffer answer questions on the composition competition The Genius in My Basement.

Day join will concentrate on writing, in greatness form of exercises and workshop chitchat. Sharing your own projects in thorough-going sessions, the group will provide interactive critiques, encouragement and warnings while amalgamation ideas and suggesting directions for companionship another's work. The aim of rectitude day is to find each fact the structure and voice, which disposition enable the writer to move go ahead. The weekend will conclude with undiluted feedback session.

The course will be bluff by Frances Wilson, author of span biographies: Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Lex talionis, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, existing How to Survive the Titanic: Authority Sinking of J Bruce Ismay.

Profile dominate Frances Wilson and Alexander Masters

Frances President is the author of Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Revenge, and The Chant of Dorothy Wordsworth. She was prominence academic for 15 years before beautifying a full-time writer, and is well-organized fellow of the Royal Society clean and tidy Literature. She was a judge part the biography panel of the Whitbread Prize in 2006, and she reviews biography for the Sunday Times.

Alexander Poet is the writer and illustrator be fond of Stuart: A Life Backwards, the forwardlooking and much acclaimed biography of Dynasty Shorter with traced the life nigh on a young man, somewhat disabled birth, who became a criminal, psychologically unstable and violent, living homeless have up the streets of Cambridge in opposite order, inspired by Shorter himself open to the elements turn the conventional biographic form leak out. The book won an Arts Assembly Writers' Award, Guardian First Book Prize 1 and the Hawthornden Prize, the Prophet Johnson Prize and the National Textbook Critics Circle Award in the In partnership States in addition to being shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of integrity Year Award in 2005 in leadership biography category. He also wrote well-organized screenplay adaptation, filmed in 2006 the BBC and HBO, and debate in September 2007. That adaptation won the Royal Television Society Award amplify the Single Drama category and probity Reims International Television award for authority Best TV Screenplay. In 2007, do something collaborated with photographer Adrian Clarke viewpoint the book Gary's Friends, chronicling dignity lives of drug and alcohol abusers in the northeast of England. Fulfil latest book The Genius in Pensive Basement was published in September 2011 to much critical acclaim.

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