Fiction Writing Course with William Burton McCormick

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A creative writing course for English speakers, led by the American writer William Burton McCormick.

Have you ever wanted to write a novel?
A short story?
Understand the path to publication?

Learn how to write fiction in the English language from a professional writer. A workshop class with writing exercises taught by an award-winning Native English-speaking American author. The class will consist of exercises to improve your prose, discussions on all elements of fiction writing and the path to publishing novels, short stories and non-traditional fiction. Students will be expected to write fiction and share their work with instructors and classmates. No writing experience needed but fluency in English is required.

Questions? Write the instructor at WBMCAuthor@gmail.com

About the instructor: William Burton McCormick is an American writer of mystery and historical fiction. He is the author of five books and over a hundred published short stories. The Latvian language edition of his first novel “Lenin’s Harem” was published by Zvaigzne ABC in 2014 and added to the library of the Latvian National War Museum. He has spoken about writing and Latvian history at the Latvian Embassy to the United States in Washington D.C. William’s work has been a finalist for the two most prestigious awards in crime fiction: the Edgar Allan Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America and the Dagger Award from the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain. He holds an MA in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester (UK) and ESL teaching certificate from the LADO Institute in Washington D.C. He was elected a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in Scotland in 2013. A native of Nevada, William has lived in seven countries for writing purposes including six years in Latvia. Learn more about him at www.williamburtonmccormick.com

The first part of each class will focus on writing methodology, exercises, theory, and presentations by various guest lecturers, while the second part will be devoted to group discussion and analysis of the participants’ written work to date. Each class will last approximately 1.5 hours. The classes will be held in Riga, Ģertrūdes Street 32, on the 2nd floor of charity shop "Tavi draugi".

Class dates (all classes will start at 6 p.m.):

• June 4
  
• June 18
  
• July 2
  
• July 14
  
• July 30
  
• August 13
  
• August 27
  
• September 10

All proceeds go to benefit Ukraine via the charity organization "Tavi draugi".