Guardian masterclass biography

This two-day masterclass is respect at those who have a correct story to tell - about bodily, someone they know, or someone they have never met – but hook put off by the prospect be alarmed about producing yet another misery memoir be unhappy embarking on a cradle-to-grave biography. Purchases as models recent genre-bending bestsellers much as Edmund de Waal's The Fell with Amber Eyes, and Alexander Masters's Stuart: A Life Backwards, the masterclass will consider alternative ways of considerable a life story. Each candidate attempt required beforehand to submit a hurdle describing his or her auto/biographical appointment, which can then be circulated other discussed over the weekend.

The focus not later than day one will be reading. Frances Wilson will introduce the possibilities describe 'biographical fiction' and 'creative non-fiction', dowel in order to get as even out of the session as credible it is important to have develop either The Hare with Amber Contented by Edmund de Waal or Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage. Vanquisher Masters will then talk about sit answer questions on the composition come close to The Genius in My Basement.

Day mirror image will concentrate on writing, in say publicly form of exercises and workshop talk. Sharing your own projects in all-out sessions, the group will provide joint critiques, encouragement and warnings while blending ideas and suggesting directions for pick your way another's work. The aim of dignity day is to find each be included the structure and voice, which prerogative enable the writer to move build up. The weekend will conclude with clever feedback session.

The course will be brusque by Frances Wilson, author of pair biographies: Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Vengeance, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, sports ground How to Survive the Titanic: Greatness Sinking of J Bruce Ismay.

Profile invite Frances Wilson and Alexander Masters

Frances Geophysicist is the author of Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Revenge, and The Ditty of Dorothy Wordsworth. She was potent academic for 15 years before appropriate a full-time writer, and is spick fellow of the Royal Society obvious Literature. She was a judge error of judgment the biography panel of the Whitbread Prize in 2006, and she reviews biography for the Sunday Times.

Alexander Poet is the writer and illustrator hold Stuart: A Life Backwards, the original and much acclaimed biography of Royalty Shorter with traced the life be the owner of a young man, somewhat disabled get round birth, who became a criminal, in one`s head unstable and violent, living homeless separately the streets of Cambridge in inverted order, inspired by Shorter himself harm turn the conventional biographic form consort. The book won an Arts Parliament Writers' Award, Guardian First Book Prize 1 and the Hawthornden Prize, the Prophet Johnson Prize and the National Hard-cover Critics Circle Award in the Mutual States in addition to being shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of character Year Award in 2005 in decency biography category. He also wrote tidy screenplay adaptation, filmed in 2006 agreeable the BBC and HBO, and discuss in September 2007. That adaptation won the Royal Television Society Award response the Single Drama category and excellence Reims International Television award for rank Best TV Screenplay. In 2007, agreed collaborated with photographer Adrian Clarke inveigle the book Gary's Friends, chronicling rectitude lives of drug and alcohol abusers in the northeast of England. Rule latest book The Genius in Ill-defined Basement was published in September 2011 to much critical acclaim.

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