Do you want to make your readers laugh?
Join author Sophie Tanner (Reader, I Married Me) to hear her discuss her creative process and how she brings humour into her writing.
Sophie will offer tips and advice for writing humour, exploring different comedic styles and making your readers laugh.
This engaging masterclass delves into how writers can develop a unique comedic voice on the page, exploring various humour styles such as wordplay, irony, and character-based humour. Sophie will share tips on balancing humour alongside an emotional storyline by looking at timing and pace.
Plus, she’ll talk through her own publication journey and offer advice for writers who are looking to get their writing seen/ published.
This masterclass will be online via Teams. It will also be recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you'll be able to catch-up and access the recording for up to two weeks after the event has taken place.
This event is being run in collaboration with Book Aid International, with proceeds from ticket sales will go towards their Generation Reader campaign.
Sophie Tanner is a creative storyteller with a mischievous edge. She lives next to Brighton beach with her bumptious labrador, Ella. As a self love advocate, yoga teacher and published author, she is passionate about encouraging community and connection. Her first novel, Reader, I Married Me, was published by Trapeze in 2019 and is loosely based on her own experiences of marrying herself. She is currently writing her second novel, Ordinary Folk, alongside working as a Senior Copywriter at the UK’s oldest and largest animal charity, the RSPCA. When she’s not writing, Sophie loves frolicking in nature and has just started teaching dog yoga at the weekends! An avid reader, Sophie is a strong believer in the transformative power of fiction.
By 2030, over a third of the world’s young people will be in Africa. Millions of them will have no books at all. That’s an estimated 733 million children and young people who could become future doctors, teachers, business leaders, writers and more.
But, for millions of children and young people in Africa there is a real risk they will not realise their potential and be able to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty, because they lack access to books and quality education. Together, we can get them the books they need.
Through Generation Reader we will work with our partners to scale up our vital work, creating access to books in even more schools, more public and community libraries and more universities across sub-Saharan Africa. We must act now to have an impact on the next generation of young people in Africa.
Proceeds from your tickets sales will go towards Book Aid International’s Generation Reader campaign. You can find out more, and donate further, here.
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online. Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services. Contact W&A Admin on events@writersandartists.co.uk so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date. Please note, all event timings are in UK time.
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- Payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services. Contact W&A Admin on events@writersandartists.co.uk so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
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