CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL 

SUMMER SCHOOL 2025

Mon 28, Tues 29 & Thurs 31 July 2025 | 2.45pm – 4.45pm | £75 for three-day workshop course 

·        Workshop course is delivered over three days.

·        Workshop lasts two hours.

·        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.

Writing your Novel with Emily Bullock

For those just setting out on the journey and those already developing work, these workshops will look at ways to find inspiration and develop ideas, discussion of some popular genres, editing tips, and submission routes. Along the way there will be sharing of work produced in the workshops; these exercises will include experiments with point of view, ways of developing characters, writing to evoke time and place, and techniques for dealing with those difficult scenes.

Emily Bullock’s debut novel, The Longest Fight, was shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Awards. Her second novel Inside the Beautiful Inside was published in 2020, and her collection of short stories, Human Terrain, was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2022.  She won the Bristol Short Story Prize with her story My Girl, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio

Supported by the Open University.

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2025

Mon 28, Tues 29 & Thurs 31 July 2025 | 2.45pm – 4.45pm | £75 for three-day workshop course 

·        Workshop course is delivered over three days.

·        Workshop lasts two hours.

·        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.

Writing Young Adult Fiction with Sue Divin

A creative writing course for adults interested in writing for teenagers and/or writing young characters in adult novels. What defines YA? How do you write a convincing teen protagonist? This course will explore some generic fiction writing skills including character, voice, plot, pace, dialogue and self-editing. It will also consider common YA pitfalls, handling sensitive topics, age-appropriateness and the importance of inclusion.

Sue Divin has written two YA/crossover novels (and another out in 2026): Carnegie shortlisted Guard Your Heart won the Great Reads Award Ireland, and Truth Be Told, was shortlisted in the Irish Book Awards. Her writing often touches on diversity, reconciliation, borders and the legacy of the Troubles today.