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Let your imagination run riot this autumn

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Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning launches its new prospectus, Choices. With more than 400 courses starting this September, there must be something for you.

To celebrate the start of the new term, the Centre for Lifelong Learning is hosting annual Open Days on:
Saturday 11th September 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Tuesday 14th September 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Tuesday 14th September 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Come along and see what the Centre has to offer, meet the Co-ordinating Lecturers, find out about the courses and enrol. For more information contact the Centre or visit the website nearer the time www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn.

One of the courses featuring this year is Telling Tales, a brand new course led by Lynne Barrett-Lee. If you want firsthand practical and theoretical tuition, tips and advice on the craft of creative writing, this is the course you need!

Lynne Barrett-Lee has published seven novels including Barefoot In The Dark which was shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance in 2007. She is also a popular columnist for the Western Mail.

Lynne says: “The passing on of stories is as old as mankind, and the urge to tell them, for many of us, runs deep.  Those of us who find ourselves afflicted by what many writers liken to a disease, will know only too well that the true writer can’t not write. As is so eloquently stated by the author Gracie Harmon, we are “just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper as their preferred method of transport”. Writers, in the main, write compulsively; we enjoy creating fiction out of the facts all around us, and even if we’re not all scribbling furiously in cafes, then we’re often to be found, miles away, staring into space, while engaged in doing likewise in our heads.”

“My course is for anyone who has not yet started to write as well as those who are more experienced. Writing fiction, in the first instance, requires just three things: a desire to tell tales (that disease I mentioned earlier); an imagination (if it’s rusty, no matter; it will be nurtured) and most of all, a sense of adventure. In other words – bar perhaps a working knowledge of written English – nothing the average person can’t muster, if telling tales looks like becoming an affliction for you too…”

If you have a tale to tell, this course will give you the opportunity to go through analysis, application and inspiration, to get you crafting truly compelling fiction. The course also includes advice on finding markets and getting published. Telling Tales starts Friday 1st October 2010 at the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning.

Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning offers hundreds of courses covering a range of subject areas, including Languages, Business and Management and Computer Studies. Whether it is for personal or professional development or purely recreational, there is almost certainly a course available to suit all tastes. To get your free copy of Choices, and to see a full list of courses starting this September, contact the Centre on 029 2087 0000 or visit the website www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn. 

27/07/2010

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