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Impact and Inspiration at UEA
Creative Writing Residential
Coming Soon: Summer 2015
Course focus
Whether you are teaching A level Creative Writing or thinking
about running writing workshops after school, this two-and-a-half
day residential course at the University of East Anglia will inspire
and help you. Develop your own writing skills and learn how to
successfully teach creative writing to others. Explore poetry,
fiction and scriptwriting, and discover how to engage and
encourage young writers in the classroom too. The residential
includes a session run by AQA with updates about the A-level.
Overview
This event will be led by UEA creative writing tutors and AQA
representatives. It will:
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Include workshops on poetry, prose and scriptwriting
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Develop your skills as a writer
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Help you to guide and facilitate young writers in the
classroom
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Inspire you with a reading by Andrew Cowan, prizewinning novelist and Director of Creative Writing at UEA
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Bring you up to date with the latest A Level Creative
Writing news
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Give you the opportunity to make friends and form
networks
Suitable for:
This course will be of particular
interest to teachers of the new
AQA A-Level Creative Writing. It
is also suitable for all teachers
of Key Stage 3/4/5 English and
KS5 Creative Writing who are
looking to help support
ambitious writers and develop
their own skills.
Duration:
This event runs from 12th to 14th
August 2015. There are 17
places available and bookings
will be taken from 1st March
2015.
Get in touch:
teachercpd@aqa.org.uk or
0161 957 3646
Find out more about us:
aqa.org.uk/professionaldevelopment
Fee: The event fee of £800
includes two-and-a-half day
residential including all
materials, a visit to the
Sainsbury Centre on UEA
campus, B&B accommodation,
evening meals including dinner
and audience with guest
speaker
Terms and conditions: We will acknowledge your booking and confirm details by email or letter. For full terms and conditions see
coursesandevents.aqa.org.uk. Any examination material we use will relate to specimen or past papers, past mark schemes and past
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England and Wales (number 3644723). Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.