News: creative writing
Masterclass with Dr Christina Thompson
![Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Professor Anne Pender (left) with Dr Christina Thompson.](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2024-03/p1360532.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=fjZOOIOO)
On 15 March Dr Christina Thompson, multi-award winning author and editor of the Harvard Review, gave a masterclass in non-fiction writing and how to draft a book proposal to staff, postgraduate students and members of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.
Lyn Dickens is shortlisted for the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize
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Lyn Dickens has been shortlisted for the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing.
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4 X 4 Creative Writing Master Class
![Master Practitioners](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/creative-writing-masterclass.jpg?h=6e93dd64&itok=AOmNrhLv)
Over a 4-day series of Master Classes, participants had the rare opportunity to work with four outstanding and award winning writers from the United States, the former USSR and Australia.