Festival events

[John Dean]

I am delivering two master classes and a weekend residential creative writing course as part of the Darlington Arts Festival, which takes place in Darlington, County Durham, UK.

They are:

Saturday May 3 Crime Writing Masterclass,

Crime novelist John Dean presents a day-long workshop at the Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate. Time 10am-4pm

Want to create the perfect villain? Being driven to murder? Then this masterclass from the creator of the John Blizzard and Jack Harris crime novels is for you.

Tickets £25. Places can be booked in advance by contacting John Dean at

[e-mail], tel [phone]

Saturday May 24

Children’s Writing Masterclass

John Dean presents a day-long workshop at the Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate. Time 10am-4pm

Fancy writing for children? Learning the dos and don’ts? Then this masterclass from the creator of Haghir the Dragon Finder is for you.

Tickets £25. Places can be booked in advance by contacting John Dean at

[e-mail], tel [phone]

Hotel to stage residential writing course

Got a story to tell? Keen to be a writer? Got a character chatting away to you? A story waiting to get out?

Then this residential weekend course in the North East of England at The Blackwell Grange in Darlington, County Durham, UK, could be for you.

Experienced creative writing tutor and novelist John Dean, who has had eleven crime novels published by Robert Hale and has appeared in a number of short story anthologies, will run a writing workshop on the weekend of May 16-18 2014 as part of the second Darlington Arts Festival.

The weekend includes:
* Two nights Accommodation (Friday 16^th and Saturday 17^th May 2014), two breakfasts, two dinners and one lunch

* Day-long writing workshop on the Saturday followed by a morning workshop on the Sunday, including how to create characters, structure stories and invoke a strong sense of place.

The cost for the weekend is: £205 per person based on double for sole occupancy, this rate includes VAT

To reserve your place and book your accommodation : Call the Blackwell Grange Hotel on 01325 509955 , their email is

[e-mail].

Bookings must be made by Friday 18^th April and paid in full to the hotel by Friday 23^rd April 2014. Please note that minimum numbers are required for this course to run if this event needs to be cancelled you will be given a minimum 4 weeks’ notice.