Want to sharpen your writing? Understand better what editing is and does?

The “Close Editing” workshop will give you guidance and let you practice

• How to detect the flab in your paragraphs, sentences and word selection
• How to read closely, too, to see reveal the processes that other writers use and learn technique from reading.

We’ll dissect passages from writers to find out how they build their effects, and maybe where they missed opportunities to be even better.
Then we’ll dissect each other’s writing. In advance, you’ll supply passages of no more than 500 words – prose, poetry, dialogue; fiction, non-fiction – and then scrutinise those words under the microscope of close editing.

The session is led by Stur-resident Don Nordberg, a journalist, academic and business writer. He’s authored two books and published dozens of academic papers and millions of words of news stories as a correspondent, editor and executive at Reuters and as a regular contributor to The Economist. He’s also written two PhDs – one in management studies, the other in creative writing.