Date: 23 February 2013 (9:30am - 5:30pm)
So you've always aspired to be a freelance writer? And you want to develop your nose for news? Here's where you can begin your journey! Felix Cheong, award-winning poet and journalist, will be your guide through the basics of journalism. Whether it's journalistic etiquette and conduct, preparing questions for and conducting interviews or how to write different kinds of articles, Felix will systematically take you through the process, using a multi-media approach. At the end of the course, you'd have learned how to write two kinds of features articles: Personality profile and trend and commentary. You’d also learn how to pitch your story ideas to magazines and how to get them published. Course Outline:
COURSE FEES: *S$250
Media practitioners are subject to up to 90% grant of the total course fees (excluding GST) with the MDA Talent Assistance Scheme (Training Grant).For more details or for grants application, please visit www.sixdegrees.asia and sign up for a free basic membership. Terms and conditions apply.
TRAINER: FELIX CHEONG
Felix Cheong, completed his Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland in 2002 and is currently an adjunct lecturer with Murdoch University, University of Newcastle, University of Western Australia, Temasek Polytechnic and LASALLE College of the Arts. Author of eight books of poetry, plays, teen detective novels and a non-fiction anthology of interviews, his latest is a collection of short stories titled Vanishing Point. He received the National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2004. Felix has been invited to read at writers’ festivals all over the world including Edinburgh, West Cork, Austin, Sydney, Brisbane, Christchurch, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Kuala Lumpur, Ubud, Bangalore and Singapore.
Link: registration
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: prema@bookcouncil.sg, Tel: 6848 8297 I mra@bookcouncil.sg, Tel: 6848 8293
Website: http://www.bookcouncil.sg
So you've always aspired to be a freelance writer? And you want to develop your nose for news? Here's where you can begin your journey! Felix Cheong, award-winning poet and journalist, will be your guide through the basics of journalism. Whether it's journalistic etiquette and conduct, preparing questions for and conducting interviews or how to write different kinds of articles, Felix will systematically take you through the process, using a multi-media approach. At the end of the course, you'd have learned how to write two kinds of features articles: Personality profile and trend and commentary. You’d also learn how to pitch your story ideas to magazines and how to get them published. Course Outline:
- Becoming a freelance writer
- Different kinds of features writing
- What makes for good writing
- Peg and hook
- Writing trend and commentary
- Writing personality profiles
- Drafting interview questions
- Interview skills
- How not to quote people out of context
- Research skills
- Plagiarism
- Professional conduct and etiquette
- Pitching story ideas
COURSE FEES: *S$250
Media practitioners are subject to up to 90% grant of the total course fees (excluding GST) with the MDA Talent Assistance Scheme (Training Grant).For more details or for grants application, please visit www.sixdegrees.asia and sign up for a free basic membership. Terms and conditions apply.
TRAINER: FELIX CHEONG
Felix Cheong, completed his Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland in 2002 and is currently an adjunct lecturer with Murdoch University, University of Newcastle, University of Western Australia, Temasek Polytechnic and LASALLE College of the Arts. Author of eight books of poetry, plays, teen detective novels and a non-fiction anthology of interviews, his latest is a collection of short stories titled Vanishing Point. He received the National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2004. Felix has been invited to read at writers’ festivals all over the world including Edinburgh, West Cork, Austin, Sydney, Brisbane, Christchurch, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Kuala Lumpur, Ubud, Bangalore and Singapore.
Link: registration
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: prema@bookcouncil.sg, Tel: 6848 8297 I mra@bookcouncil.sg, Tel: 6848 8293
Website: http://www.bookcouncil.sg
