Pen to
Print

Pen to Print will be offering short courses to help writers improve their craft. Topics will range on the conventions of writing a good story, as well as genre-specific courses.

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For your writer’s tool kit, conventions covered will include:

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• Creating realistic dialogue

• Creating 3-dimensional characters

• The importance of setting in a story

• Writing strong narrative

• The process of writing an interesting plot

• Things to consider for your target readership and how this impacts your writing

• Writing a structure that works

• The importance of copyright

 

 

Genre-specific courses for fiction and nonfiction writing will include:

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• Children’s books (ranging from 0-12 years old)

• Young Adult (YA)

• Science-fiction

• Fantasy

• Horror

• Self-help

• Autobiography and memoir

• Biography

• Cookbooks

• How-to books and guides

• History

• Crime (fiction and nonfiction)

• Romance

 

 

We will also include helpful resources that will be available to download for those who have a completed manuscript ready to send out into the world. These include:

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• The basics of self-publishing

• Marketing your book for self-publishing

• Creating your author platform

• Organising your book launch

• Options for cover design and cover services

• ISBNs and barcodes

 

 

Please visit Pen to Print again later in 2025 when these are available.