Creative Writing Course Information
Designed to help you discover what you are interested in writing about – and in which form – on one hand my courses introduce elements of craft, while equally encouraging experimentation. In my highly practical courses (you will get writing from the off!) feedback, encouragement and writing tips gathered from my years as a writer are offered along the way.
instruction given is highly supportive, at times playful, and always encouraging to aid everyone in their creative pursuits.
Writing bio
Karen McLeod is a writer, performer and creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. She has been running her own personally devised writing courses for the last 12 years and now works with the Arvon Foundation and Polari LGBTQ+ salon.
Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, was published by Jonathan Cape and won the Betty Trask Award and was translated widely. In June 2024 it has been celebrated by being republished by Muswell Press.
She wrote In Search of the Missing Eyelash in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her memoir, Lifting Off (Muswell Press, June 2024) is about the years she worked, and went into free-fall, as cabin crew.
When she's not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the creaky boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.