I have really enjoyed this course and met some fascinating writers with whom I would like to stay in touch.

This has been an absolutely fantastic group, and I would want to remain in touch. I’ve greatly enjoyed and benefited from working with my fellow students.

The tutor has been a wonderfully astute and I will happily sing his praises to anyone in need of kind but true writing advice. I am so grateful.

The whole point of the course did seem to come together for me. Setting, detail, research, I had been doing this in previous work but this showed me I need to keep this in mind as I write. More importantly (on a personal note) I have started writing again.

The Research course has given my writing a boost and I’ve found the feedback from other members extremely helpful and formative. It’s also great to continue to have contact with the alumni circle of writers.

This is my third short Faber course over the space of roughly a year and using all of my learning from them I’ve started writing short stories and entering them into competitions. I am going to do the same with the final piece I wrote on the Research course, so the questions, queries and tips…

I really appreciated Mr Marsden’s responses to my questions about writing and research. This has been a wonderful course and I have learned plenty.

Thank you so much to our moderator Lucy for all her efforts and endeavours behind the scenes. Everything went so smoothly and I’m sure that was in part thanks to her!

In the light of what we learnt on this course, I made some alterations to my novel to try and draw the reader in.

This course encouraged me to tackle a section of a novel I’d been avoiding for some time. Once I started researching through sources, first person accounts, historical books that have been written, I realised there was much material to draw from.

I really found the practical exercises to be very helpful. I enjoyed the close reading, dissecting writing practices and research methods, and liked the way everything culminated in the final assignment. I found myself digging through past journals, Word docs, etc and putting to practice what Philip has been teaching us for the past week…

I have really enjoyed the course and have felt truly alive while writing – and reading the work of others.