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WRITING COMEDY IS HARD - BUT WITH THE RIGHT SKILLS YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!

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  EROTICA IS BOOMING!

With Erotica sales rising by more than 56 percent over the past three years now is the time to carve a career in this popular genre.

Join Della Galton - Erotica novelist and commissioning editor for Xcite Books, the UK’s leading publisher of erotica to gain practical skills in writing erotica.

Please Note: All writers will be given the fantastic opportunity to submit their final stories for Della to assess publishing suitability.

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 TELEVISION IS CRYING OUT FOR NEW AND EXCITING SITCOMS!

Come and learn your skills with seasoned SitCom writers

Brian Leveson and Paul Minett.

A writing team will be chosen from the June & September writers
who have successfully completed our SitCom writing programme.

The chosen team will join our professional writers to write an original SitCom to take to the industry for a hopeful full commission.

Please note: There is no guarantee of being invited to join our writing team. Invitation (by mutual consent) will be offered to the strongest / most suitable writers. There will be no additional charge for these writers.

Limited places - so book early.

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 GET YOURSELF NOTICED - WRITE A THRILLER

Hone your skills to write a great thriller!

This one-day special workshop will analyse and dissect the quintessential thriller.

By the end of the day you will know what it takes to write to thrill an audience.

Limited places - so book early.

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Free for all SMART writers who have booked

a workshop / writing programme!

Or a special 'Welcome to SMART' Rate: £50

 NEW TO SMART ACADEMY - WRITING IN THE SUN

WRITING FOR CONTINUING DRAMA - RETREAT

11th - 16th September 2012
A three-month, distance learning course consisting of an intensive, residential
week in a beautiful mountain village in Spain.On the course you will complete an episode of BBC1’s DOCTORS, exactly simulating the writing process on the show.

Your tutor will be award-winning screenwriter Jonathan Hall – plus, at the end of
the workshop in Spain, the group will be joined by a current member of the
DOCTORS editorial team (either the series producer, or a current DOCTORS script editor - the gate-keepers for new writers), who will give feedback on your Scene-by-Scene outlines as if you were already writers on the show - a unique opportunity!.

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Everything you need to know about writing...

Building skills

Building portfolios
Building careers
Building a community of writers

SMART Academy supports both new and established writers.

Our tutors are writers and professionals with well over 100 years of industry experience.

We believe in doing, not just talking about it. We offer seminars that can be taken as stand alone or linked to the commencement of our writing development programmes. This means at SMART Academy you can actually do what you are driven to do - and that is to write.

With our support you can hone your skills and techniques whilst building a solid career focused portfolio. At the end of every development programme you will have something tangible - a well crafted piece of work.

We are there to help you build your writing career. We want you to break into the industry and more importantly we want you to stay there.

It is important to us that every writer gets the most from our courses. In light of this our writing development programmes are delivered to differing levels...

DO YOU NEED EXPERT ADVICE?

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHICH COURSE IS RIGHT FOR YOU -

GIVE US A CALL...

Kelly Marshall
01843-843318

kfmm@smart-academy.co.uk

Fiona Nerberg is a specialist in Rights Negotiation and she can be contacted outside of the Academy's Seminars and Writing Programmes for any problems that you may be having over rights issues.