Author Archives: Shaun Levin

About Shaun Levin

Shaun Levin has been teaching on the Complete Creative Writing Course since 2005. He is the author of Seven Sweet Things, A Year of Two Summers, and, most recently, of Snapshots of The Boy.

Favourite Things and a New Short Story Course

Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:51 am by Shaun Levin

It’s been a busy term and, I’m ashamed to say, almost three months since the last post. Not that we weren’t devising exercises and coming up with writing ideas! But you get so caught up in one thing (teaching), that … Continue reading →

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Make Accidents Happen: Finding a Perspective

Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm by Shaun Levin

Something happens and everything changes. You break a leg, someone you love disappears, you win a major prize, and what you thought was your story – your life! – is turned upside down. On a recent holiday to Amsterdam, I … Continue reading →

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Thinking Back, Linking Back

Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:22 pm by Shaun Levin

We’ve just come to the end of two summer intensive workshops. A week of focused writing and thinking about writing, exploring character and dialogue and metaphors and the more abstract questions of “Why I Write”. (Cue George Orwell’s brilliant essay.) … Continue reading →

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Make a Speech

Posted on June 21, 2011 at 9:52 am by Shaun Levin

Join us for a launch party to celebrate Gerda Pearce’s debut novel Long Lies the Shadow. Drinks and nibbles from 5.30pm at The New Cavendish Club on Tuesday, 28th June. Gerda is a long-standing CCWC writer and will be reading from the … Continue reading →

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Challenging You and Your Characters

Posted on May 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm by Shaun Levin

A few days ago some of the participants on our courses, past and present, whose work features in the Words Made Flesh anthology, read from their work at Woolfson & Tay, a new and exciting bookshop in Bermondsey, South London. … Continue reading →

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