National Black Arts Alliance

13 SEPTEMBER -
18 SEPTEMBER 2010

Creative Writing Residential (Devon)

The AWA/Arvon course is a special partnership residential taking place for AWA members and prospective AWA members

A week long course will be held in Devon at Totleigh Barton, a thatched pre-Domesday manor house surrounded by farmland in one of the most peaceful and beautiful parts of Devon.

Course Leaders

 

 

Dorothea Smartt, a respected Black British poet of Barbadian heritage, is the author of two books of poetry: Connecting Medium and Ship Shape. She has also been published in several anthologies internationally and has performed her work across the globe.  Most recently, she has been anthologised in Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry. She is the poetry editor for SABLE Litmag, and co-director of Inscribe, Peepal Tree Press’s Black and Asian writer development programme in Yorkshire.

Dorothea wil be working with

Nii Ayikwei Parkes is co-founder and senior editor at flipped eye publishing.

Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story writer and a tutor of Narrative Craft   Contact africanwritersabroad@yahoo.com Discounts available for AWA members, full time students and subscribers to SABLE LitMag and Mslexia.