WRITE HUMAN: Build Your Literary Toolkit

Join us for the latest of our events in conjunction with the Blue Pencil Agency, featuring bestselling author Saskia Sarginson.

VOICE & CHARACTERISATION

Voice is the thing that agents talk about most and define the least. It's also one thing AI can’t match. 

In the first of three evenings at Bàrd Books, BPA directors Sara and Frances are joined by bestselling novelist Saskia Sarginson to work out what voice actually means on the page - how it grows out of a character's particular way of seeing the world, and how you find yours. Where does a character's perspective end and the writer's begin? Why does so much competent prose still read as flat? And when AI can produce serviceable sentences on demand, what can only a human put into a scene?

Informal and friendly workshop with writing exercises and editorial feedback on the night. Whatever stage you are at, come…