CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2026

Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th & Thursday 30th July | 2.45pm – 4.45pm | £80 for three-day workshop course 

• Workshop course is delivered over three days.
• Each workshop lasts two hours and all workshops are delivered at the same time.
• Participants should attend all three sessions.
• Tutors are experienced creative writing facilitators and published authors.
• All levels are welcome.

Spaces are limited – advance booking is essential.

Gothic Flash Fiction with Jennie E, Owen 

In this course, you will be introduced to the form of flash fiction and the genre of the Gothic with three sessions: looking at ways of finding inspiration, considering what elements are needed to build on a specific genre, considering how we can achieve rounded and complex characters in our fiction writing, including plausible dialogue, looking at place and setting, considering how we can build suspense in our writing. 

Jennie E. Owen is a published author and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. Her writing has been widely published online, in anthologies and literary journals. Her latest collection, Tips for Collectors of the Macabre, is available from Yaffle. 

Supported by the Open University