CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP ONE - Getting started: Finding the right story & creating your world
Have you always wanted to try your hand as a crime writer, but struggled to know where to begin? Perhaps you know how your mystery ends, but are struggling to pace your plot? This National Crime Reading Month, unlock your creative ‘cell’ in our historic crime-fighting setting by joining a series of three exclusive creative writing masterclasses led by award-winning crime authors.
Getting started: finding the right story and creating your world.
Kick off your Crime Reading Month with the first writing workshop in our June series. With award-winning crime author Anna Mazzola, learn how to decide on the story you are telling and how to begin creating your story world. This fun and informal first session will cover, through discussion and writing exercises:
- The rules of the crime fiction genre and its subcategories (including historical crime and police procedural)
- How you find good ideas and refine them into a pitch
- How you can start to turn your idea into a book
- Research methods
- Deciding on narrative voice, and
- Creating the world of your story
No experience is necessary; this session is perfect for those who have always wanted to embark on their own crime writing journey but need the tools and confidence to begin.
Price: £35 if booked individually. To maximise your experience, Bow Street Museum recommends attending all three workshops for the reduced price of £90. All tickets include a glass of prosecco or a soft drink alternative on arrival.
Date & Timings: 3rd June at 18:00. Doors open at 17:45 and the workshop lasts approximately 2 hours.
Conditions of entry: this event is recommended for anyone over the age of 16 years.
Anna is the award-winning author of historical crime, Gothic and thriller fiction. Her latest historical novel, The Book of Secrets, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. Her debut, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe award. Anna also writes legal thrillers as Anna Sharpe. When not writing or teaching, she is a human rights and criminal justice solicitor.
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Have you always wanted to try your hand as a crime writer, but struggled to know where to begin? Perhaps you know how your mystery ends, but are struggling to pace your plot? This National Crime Reading Month, unlock your creative ‘cell’ in our historic crime-fighting setting by joining a series of three exclusive creative writing masterclasses led by award-winning crime authors.
Getting started: finding the right story and creating your world.
Kick off your Crime Reading Month with the first writing workshop in our June series. With award-winning crime author Anna Mazzola, learn how to decide on the story you are telling and how to begin creating your story world. This fun and informal first session will cover, through discussion and writing exercises:
- The rules of the crime fiction genre and its subcategories (including historical crime and police procedural)
- How you find good ideas and refine them into a pitch
- How you can start to turn your idea into a book
- Research methods
- Deciding on narrative voice, and
- Creating the world of your story
No experience is necessary; this session is perfect for those who have always wanted to embark on their own crime writing journey but need the tools and confidence to begin.
Price: £35 if booked individually. To maximise your experience, Bow Street Museum recommends attending all three workshops for the reduced price of £90. All tickets include a glass of prosecco or a soft drink alternative on arrival.
Date & Timings: 3rd June at 18:00. Doors open at 17:45 and the workshop lasts approximately 2 hours.
Conditions of entry: this event is recommended for anyone over the age of 16 years.
Anna is the award-winning author of historical crime, Gothic and thriller fiction. Her latest historical novel, The Book of Secrets, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. Her debut, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe award. Anna also writes legal thrillers as Anna Sharpe. When not writing or teaching, she is a human rights and criminal justice solicitor.
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