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Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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Tuesday 12 March 2013, 6-8pm at the Freeword Centre, the National Academy of Writing stages a 'Creative Writing Course in an Evening', with guest Keith Ridgway
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Monday, 28 January 2013
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2013 starts with two gripping new novels from writers who have followed NAW courses.
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Sunday, 27 January 2013
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Friday, 09 November 2012
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Times, titles, and participant biographies for the October 12 discussions at the 2013 inaugural NAW Creative Writing Fair.
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Monday, 08 October 2012
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NAW at Chiswick and Bristol this autumn.
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Monday, 03 September 2012
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2.30pm-4.00pm Creative Writing and Getting Published In Association with the National Academy of Writing
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Monday, 03 September 2012
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NAW at Bristol Festival of Literature, Thursday 18 October
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Monday, 03 September 2012
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Free Word Centre 7-8pm
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Saturday, 01 September 2012
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NAW Director Richard Beard is one of five judges for the brand new Costa Short Story Award, a new prize for a single short story that will run in association with the Costa Book Awards.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012
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After the success of the first NAW 10-week evening course that finishes on 25 July, NAW will be running a second course to run in an after-work slot on Wednesdays from 5 September - 7 November.
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Friday, 06 July 2012
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Naomi Alderman and Jane Harris are the two NAW patrons visiting the NAW 10-week course based at the Freeword Centre in Farringdon Road, London. The Academy asks working writers to talk about their process: how they actually get the words on the page, day after day.
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Monday, 02 July 2012
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Following the success of NAW visits to Cambridge in 2011 and February 2012, NAW will be back at the University on Wednesday 14 November 2012 with the award-winning writer Kevin Barry.
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Monday, 02 July 2012
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NAW has a designed a new 10 Week Course to run in an after-work slot on Wednesdays from 23 May-25 July 2012 at the Freeword Centre in London.
In this ten-week course writers will benefit from the detailed editorial feedback generated by the unique NAW Masterclass, as well as the reader response offered by a more traditional Creative Writing workshop. The visiting NAW Patrons are Orange short-listed authors Jane Harris (The Observations; Gillespie and I) and Naomi Alderman (Disobedience; The Lessons).
Wednesdays: 6-8.30 p.m.
Cost: £890
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
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In 2012 Foyles bookshop will host the Academy's patron visits in the Gallery at their flagship store on Charing Cross Road.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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After last year's successful visit, NAW will be back at Nottingham University on 22 May for a combined Masterclass and Patron Visit. The NAW Visiting Patron is novelist and memoirist Monique Roffey
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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The Academy's Honorary President Ion Trewin attended the first NAW Masterclass of the new 2011 NAW course at the Free Word Centre in London
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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The Academy will be providing mini NAW masterclasses at Henley Literary Festival on Saturday 1st October. Writer can bring along the first page of any fiction or non-fiction project for an expert editorial overview from NAW Director Richard Beard.
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Saturday, 10 March 2012
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This Farewell Symphony by Edmund Bealby-Wright, winner of the 2010 Impress prize for New Writers, newly published by Impress Books
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Saturday, 10 March 2012
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In 'The Write Stuff' (Prospect Magazine, 15th December 2010, Issue 178) journalist Leo Benedictus takes an in-depth look at UK Creative Writing courses, and visits a National Academy of Writing Masterclass
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Saturday, 10 March 2012
