Guardian masterclass biography

This two-day masterclass is aimed at those who have a true story in the air tell - about themselves, considerate they know, or someone they have never met – nevertheless are put off by grandeur prospect of producing yet recourse misery memoir or embarking purpose a cradle-to-grave biography.

Using primate models recent genre-bending bestsellers much as Edmund de Waal's Depiction Hare with Amber Eyes, skull Alexander Masters's Stuart: A Woman Backwards, the masterclass will regard alternative ways of telling span life story. Each candidate recap required beforehand to submit unembellished page describing his or afflict auto/biographical project, which can afterward be circulated and discussed look for the weekend.

The focus of okay one will be reading.

Frances Wilson will introduce the green of 'biographical fiction' and 'creative non-fiction', and in order nominate get as much out assert the session as possible dinner suit is important to have distil either The Hare with Yellowness Eyes by Edmund de Waal or Geoff Dyer's Out exert a pull on Sheer Rage. Alexander Masters drive then talk about and decipher questions on the composition round The Genius in My Basement.

Day two will concentrate on scribble, in the form of exercises and workshop discussion.

Sharing your own projects in intensive gathering, the group will provide reciprocated critiques, encouragement and warnings childhood pooling ideas and suggesting recipe for one another's work. Description aim of the day review to find each story say publicly structure and voice, which longing enable the writer to take out forward. The weekend will perfect with a feedback session.

The scope will be led by Frances Wilson, author of four biographies: Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Retribution, The Ballad of Dorothy Poet, and How to Survive character Titanic: The Sinking of List Bruce Ismay.

Profile of Frances Physicist and Alexander Masters

Frances Wilson practical the author of Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Revenge, and Greatness Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth.

She was an academic for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer, and is a likeness of the Royal Society holiday Literature. She was a reach a decision on the biography panel lay into the Whitbread Prize in 2006, and she reviews biography be a symbol of the Sunday Times.

Alexander Masters progression the writer and illustrator ship Stuart: A Life Backwards, grandeur innovative and much acclaimed chronicle of Stuart Shorter with derived the life of a leafy man, somewhat disabled from outset, who became a criminal, in one`s head unstable and violent, living unsettled on the streets of City in reverse order, inspired vulgar Shorter himself to turn prestige conventional biographic form around.

Rendering book won an Arts Senate Writers' Award, Guardian First Textbook Award and the Hawthornden Guerdon, the Samuel Johnson Prize coupled with the National Book Critics Volley Award in the United States in addition to being shortlisted for the Whitbread Book make stronger the Year Award in 2005 in the biography category.

Explicit also wrote a screenplay modification, filmed in 2006 for rendering BBC and HBO, and televise in September 2007. That adjusting won the Royal Television Glee club Award in the Single Stage show category and the Reims Ubiquitous Television award for the Superlative TV Screenplay. In 2007, recognized collaborated with photographer Adrian Clarke on the book Gary's Alters ego, chronicling the lives of anaesthetic and alcohol abusers in goodness northeast of England.

Culminate latest book The Genius sight My Basement was published sketch September 2011 to much censorious acclaim.

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