La construction de personnages et de dialogues
Quebec's screenwriters' guild runs this six-day French-language course on building fiction characters for film and TV and on what dialogue does, from function to subtext.
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Workshop or class The Hurst, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Residential Writing Course: Adaptation
Run by Arvon
Writers turning a novel, a podcast or a true family story into a TV series, single drama or play can spend Monday to Saturday at Arvon's Shropshire house with Hannah Griffiths, who runs adaptations at Banijay UK, and playwright and screenwriter David Eldridge. Rights, pitching and the script itself are all covered.
Starts Nov 9, 2026 (starts in 20 days)
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Dates
It runs Nov 9 to 14, 2026 in The Hurst, Shropshire.
At a glance
- Cost
- From £995Single room, all meals included; a limited number of 30 percent concession places cost GBP 696.50
- Formats
- Series, Feature
- Held in
- English
- Where
- The Hurst, Shropshire, United Kingdom (in person)
- Who can attend
- Open to writers of any background or experience level.
What to send
- Also asked for
- Book a place online; no application or sample is asked for.
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What it gives besides money
Four group workshops held in the mornings, one tutorial with each tutor, an evening talk by guest Pia Masters, a week's room and board, and free afternoons to write.
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