Sharing imaginative and practical skills, Katie demystifies the writing process to help you foster good writing habits, develop effective writing techniques and have confidence in your own writing voice both in and beyond academia.
Courses offered by Katie Grant
Sessions include:
- The art and craft of editing
- Who am I when I write? Voice in academic writing
- Reading like a writer
- Making the most of your writing time
- Structured writing retreats, writing clinics and writing groups for all stages of Masters and PhD researchers, and academic staff
- The Bridge: academic writing development for sixth form in England and Wales; 5th and 6th year in Scotland
Katie brings the energy, expertise and experience of the professional writer to her academic writing interventions:
- as an academic writer – (co-creator of the Advancing Academic Writing skills website at the University of Glasgow, RLF Writing Fellow, RLF Bridge Fellow, conference contributor)
- as a newspaper columnist (including, at various times, the Herald, Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Scottish editions of the Times and Sunday Times) and occasional book reviewer (New York Times)
- as a historical novelist (10 novels (Puffin, Quercus, Virago) including two trilogies)
Katie’s approach is participant-centred, with all writing interventions tailored to the particular group and their particular needs. She knows the value of hands-on practice, so her sessions see participants mapping techniques directly onto their own work.
Katie has been the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde, and she also works with doctoral training partnerships and individual HEIs all over the UK. She is the co-ordinator of the RLF Consultant Fellows’ programme, an RLF Bridge Fellow and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is also Chair of the panel of judges for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.
Katie Grant was an amazing ‘writing instructor’, very seasoned and experienced with a great way of teaching techniques.
This is the most useful Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities workshop I’ve been to (I’m a 3rd year student)
… the one-to-one was brilliant. I feel really energised about reworking the rejected paper.
This workshop has surpassed my expectations. I can’t thank you enough!
Katie Grant was an amazing ‘writing instructor’, very seasoned and experienced with a great way of teaching techniques.
