Write What Scares You: Fictionalising Real Life

This 12-week creative writing programme is designed to help participants explore and confront their deepest fears through the art of storytelling.

By fictionalizing real-life experiences and emotions, writers will learn to harness their anxieties and transform them into compelling narratives.

The course will guide participants through various writing techniques, character development, plot structuring, and the use of suspense and tension to enhance their stories.

Each week will focus on different aspects of writing, incorporating exercises, peer reviews, and feedback sessions to foster growth and creativity.

About the tutor

Chris Wright is a short fiction writer from Bangor, Northern Ireland. He has been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year, runner-up in The MairtínCrawford Award, and his work has been featured in dozens of print anthologies and publications.

Chris recently had the honour of having his non-fiction work on the pandemic preserved in the Irish Reading Archive at UCD Library in Dublin for the next 100 years. Chris is a judge for the Mairtín Crawford Award for Short Story and has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast.