Tutor information
Lucy Ayrton
Lucy Ayrton has an MA in Creative Writing from Warwick University, and is a novelist and performance poet. Her debut novel, One More Chance, the story of a young mother battling imprisonment and addiction, was published in 2018 with Dialogue Books and was a finalist in the Exeter Novel Award. Her next two novels will be published with Dialogue in 2021 and 2022. She wrote and performed two full-length spoken word shows at the Edinburgh Festival, which were respectively turned into a poetry pamphlet and a radio play. She also competed as a national finalist at the UK Poetry Slam. Lucy has taught creative writing at all levels up to undergraduate, and is currently a module leader at the London College of Creative Media.
Courses
Find your own voice and your own niche in writing for young adults, in sub-genres from realism to the supernatural.
Find your own voice and your own niche in writing for young adults, in sub-genres from realism to the supernatural.
How do we experience identity? How do we write it? Investigate the ways that our fiction practice can be (and must be) informed by who we are, and look at how writing can help us, and our readers, investigate identity.
How do we write a setting, and why does it matter? Consider the aspects of time and place that make an immersive and memorable setting, and explore how to incorporate them into your fiction writing.
What makes a compelling character, and how do we write one? In this course we'll look at the characters we love and investigate how to breathe life into characterisation in our own work through a series of practical writing exercises and class discussion.
Find your own voice and your own niche in writing for young adults, in sub-genres from realism to the supernatural.