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Book Preview & Creative Writing e-course – Tiny Acorns

6th December 2010 By Susan Mann 2 Comments

Dotterel Press has launched a charity anthology featuring the work of several regional writers – including XXX from YYY – and raising money for this year’s Children in Need appeal.
All the items were inspired by a free on-line Creative Writing e-course run earlier this year by Tim Atkinson. The course itself came into being after one of the students – having signed up for an evening class in writing – was disappointed to find that her lessons has been cancelled due to lack of interest.
In contrast, the ten-week replacement on-line course attracted a huge national following. Well over 100 people formally registered and were allocated to one of several on-line peer support tutorial groups. Many hundreds more followed the lessons informally week-by-week, downloading them direct from Tim Atkinson’s website Bringing up Charlie. Others are still finding the lessons useful, and Tim is constantly receiving requests to repeat the course.
Inspired by some of the exercises, the budding authors wrote and submitted pieces for an end-of-course charity anthology. The best were then selected for publication. And on Friday November 19th Tiny Acorns was launched to coincide with the BBC’s annual Children in Need charity telethon.
The genres covered in the book range from flash-fiction to more traditional short-stories, as well as life-writing, humour, poetry and autobiography. There’s something for everyone. And if people are inspired by what they read, they can have a go for themselves as the entire creative writing course has been reprinted in the book’s appendix.
Tiny Acorns was published on Friday November 19th by Dotterel Press (ISBN 978-0-9562869-1-8) and is available direct for just £8.99 from the Dotterel Press Online store.
Review: This is a fantastic course, I personally learned a lot and grew as a writer whilst working on this. I have a short story published in this anthology, there are lots of other pieces which are fantastic. You should go buy. It’s a good cause and some excellent writing. Not only that but you get a great course. Go buy.
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Filed Under: Book Review, Review, Writing Tagged With: Dotterel Press, Tiny Acorns, Writing Course

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  1. Notes To Self Plus T says

    8th December 2010 at 4:57 pm

    Hey there, I have been a bit fast and loose in blogland whilst my blog has being going all wordpress and self-hosted but I am back now. You followed my blog before so wanted to check you know I have moved to <a href="http://www.notestoselfplustwo.com” target=”_blank”>www.notestoselfplustwo.com. If you re-subscribe I am running a competition to win Liz Earle Body Cream here: http://www.notestoselfplustwo.com/2010/12/subscri…. Would love you to re-subscribe, its a bit lonely when you first move your blog!Love Notes xGoing to look for acorns xx

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  2. The Dotterel says

    9th December 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Thanks for the plug! Let's hope it generates some interest.

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