THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL

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Dates: 29 January to 19 March 2025   

Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08, UCC 

Fee: €300

Closing date for registrations: 20th of January 2025.

Course Overview: 

This course will prepare the student to understand the main concepts of the novel and how to write better fiction. The course will look at craft and writing, in relation to Plot, Characterisation, Narrative Arc, Themes, Structure, Point-of-view, among others.  

The course will also help students to understand the publishing world, with help in writing synopsis, cover letters, agent requests, among others. 

Each class will deal with in class writing and reading of students’ own work.  

Course Content: 

• Week 1 Approaching the novel, a guide 
• Week 2 Point-of-View and Characterisation 
• Week 3 Plot and Narrative Arc 
• Week 3 Themes and Structure 
• Week 4 Reading the contemporary novel 
• Week 5 Workshopping 
• Week 6 Workshopping 
• Week 7 Workshopping 
• Week 8 The Publishing Industry 

Course Lecturer : 

Patrick Holloway is a writer and lecturer with a PhD and Master’s in Creative Writing. His debut novel, The Language of Remembering, will be published in February 2025. His story 'Checked Luggage' is the Irish Examiner Christmas Short Story 2024. He is listed in the Irish Independent as one of the writers to look out for in 2025. In 2023, he won the Bath Short Story Prize and was the recipient of the Paul McVeigh Residentcy. He is the 2021 winner of the Molly Keane Creative Writing Competition, The Allingham Flash Fiction Competition, and the Flash 500 competition. His work has been published by The Stinging Fly, Carve, Overland, The Irish Times, The Illanot Review, Scoundrel Time, Poetry Ireland Review, The Lonely Crowd, Write Bloody Publishing, New Voices Scotland, Papercuts, The Moth, Southword, among many others.  

Requirements: 

Applicants must be at least 18 years old at course commencement. 

Contact Details for Further Information: 

Email: shortcourses@ucc.ie  

Please note our refund policy as follows: 

100% refund if student cancels 1 week prior to course commencement, less €50 processing fee.

100% refund if student's course is cancelled due to insufficient numbers.