For 2010 we hope to provide you with a new and exciting array of retreats and courses, both long and short, to attract those of you who haven’t yet joined one of our groups, and tempt the rest of you back into the fold. We enjoy having you. Here are the courses and dates for the first quarter of 2010.
For those of you who have done one of our courses, the Allaboutwriting/continued dates are 20 January, 17 February, 17 March and 14 April. All are Wednesdays at the usual time of 7 – 9pm and the usual cost of R250.
Our first Writers’ Circle Course for 2010 will start on Monday 18 January. Sessions will be held every Monday from 7 – 9.30pm for ten weeks. Cost R5500 or take advantage of our early bird special of R5000 if you book and pay before 31 December.
Character Course – Join Jo-Anne Richards, Richard Beynon and psychologist Pierre Brouard on Saturday, February 27, to learn what makes great characters tick. They have joined forces to help screen-writers, novelists and television writers create characters that leap to life from page or screen. The workshop will be held in Parkview, Johannesburg from 9am to 5pm with lunch and refreshments included. This course, introduced to acclaim in 2009, will cost R1500.
We have two new courses for 2010. The first one is a three-day course on Memoir and Biography which will be run by Jo-Anne Richards and Fred de Vries. The dates are Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March with the final day being on Saturday 17 April. The cost of the course is R4500. Or R4100 with an Early Bird discount of 10%, if you register and pay by 31 January, 2010.
Richard and romance writer Alissa Baxter (author of three published romances) will be running a Romance Writing Course to be held over 6 Wednesday mornings – 3, 10, 17, 24 March and 14 and 21 April. This course will cost R3600.
