Short Course – Comic Writing: Jon Canter & Marina Lewycka

Short Course - Comic Writing: Jon Canter & Marina Lewycka

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 3rd Aug - Sun 6th Aug, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT


British culture is rich in humour: irony, satire, farce, wordplay, wit, silliness, absurdity, teasing. The first rule of comedy is, there is no rule. So, this course won’t tell you what’s funny and what’s not – that’s up to you. Instead, you’ll discover the techniques writers use to fulfil the comic potential of their characters and plots. No longer will you strive to make every line funny, which soon becomes tiresome (and tired). We’ll help you create characters and situations from which humour springs naturally. You’ll learn how to do the hard work that makes your comedy look easy.

Jon Canter studied law at Cambridge before becoming a scriptwriter, novelist and playwright. His novels Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth led James Kidd in The Independent to call him ‘arguably the finest comic novelist working in Britain today’. His TV credits include Not The Nine O’Clock News, Posh Nosh and Live At The Apollo. Jon was a script editor for Fry & Laurie and wrote stand-up comedy with Lenny Henry. His radio credits include Believe It, which won Best Scripted Comedy at the BBC Audio Awards in 2013, and Boswell’s Lives, which won the Prix Europa in 2015 for Best Fiction Radio Series. He lives in Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast.

Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a German refugee camp after World War II and now lives in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was published in 2005, won the Saga Award for Wit, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and went on to sell a million copies in thirty-five languages. She has since published Two Caravans in 2007, We Are All Made of Glue in 2009 and Various Pets Alive and Dead in 2012. The Lubetkin Legacy came out in 2016 and was also shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

On this course, tutors will read a sample of your work ahead of time to get a feel for your work. Details of how and when to submit this will be sent to you in the course notes upon booking.

Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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