Creating your author platform online

City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course is designed for published or soon-to-be published authors. Through examples and discussion we will explore the essential components to a modern author’s platform including the author’s persona, websites and social media.

The Tutor Lisa Goll has worked in publishing for the past dozen years and is now responsible for the Bloomsbury Institute, an events division of Bloomsbury Publishing in London. Beyond Bloomsbury, Lisa is the owner of the London Writers’ Café – the country’s biggest creative writing group – where she programmes an array of events for her community of 2,500+ writers to realise their writing and publishing ambitions. As chair of LWC since 2010, Lisa has hosted more than 250 events for fiction writers and is a qualified coach.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Determine what sort of persona you wish to project to the public
- Write the copy for a number of pages of your own website
- Decide which social media platforms (if any) are for you
- Make contacts in the industry to secure public appearances.

Paper and pen.

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Writing

Course programme

- Creating a professional author persona.
- The essence of a good author website.
- Social media platforms eg Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, YouTube
- Getting out there : moving from the online to the real world.

The course will be based around interactive discussion. All writing courses at City Lit will involve an element of workshop. This means that students will produce work which will be discussed in an open and constructive environment with the tutor and other students. The college operates a policy of constructive criticism, and all feedback on another student’s work by the tutor and other students should be delivered in that spirit. For classes longer than one day, regular reading and writing exercises will be set for completion at home to set deadlines.

Additional information

City Lit offer a range of writing courses for aspiring authors, poets and journalists. Browse the writing section of our website to find the perfect course for you. All students are invited to join us at City Lit Talks Back, our monthly performance night for City Lit writers. Everyone is welcome, admission is free and there's no need to book in advance. Students are also encouraged to submit to Between the Lines, our annual anthology of creative writing. For the latest news, courses and events, stay in touch with the Department on Facebook and Twitter. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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