Courses/Workshops
Meet & Make at the Museum - Polar light phenomena: Glitter stencilling
Join us for our museum wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! This session we will be using and creating stencils to create blended glitter art. We will be discussing polar light phenomena.
Workshop: The Murder Plot: How to Write (and Read) Modern Crime Fiction
Sun 17 June 2018
Institute of Continuing Education
What is it about crime writing that readers find so appealing? In this workshop we will look at how modern crime novels use - and cleverly subvert - universal story dynamics to entertaining effect.
To put it another way: how does a Jo Nesbo novel share the same 'story DNA' as a Shakespeare play? Why can it be argued that Gillian Flynn's thriller Gone Girl and the romantic comedy Notting Hill tell (almost) the same tale?
Workshop leader Tim Glencross has a bachelor's degree in Modern and Medieval Languages from Peterhouse, Cambridge and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. He is the author of the novels Barbarians, (2014; Huffington Post Book of the Year, shortlisted for Writers Guild Best First Novel and Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year) and Days of the Dead (2017; 'Thriller of the Week’ Mail on Sunday). His journalism includes Esquire, TLS and the Guardian. A former political speechwriter and qualified lawyer, he is an adjunct professor at NYU's Leonard L. Stern School of Business.
This event is part of the ICE Summer Festival, a series of cultural, culinary and educational events in the spectacular setting of Madingley Hall and Gardens.
Cost: £15 (Discount available if you attend the Sherlock Holmes performance later in the day)
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
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