Workshops include a prose-writing session with AL Kennedy, pop poetry composition with Luke Wright and fiction writing with Jill Dawson.
In a primer on writing with the Rilkean title "Letters to a Young Novelist" (1997), Vargas Llosa describes the composition of fiction as a "backwards striptease," in which an author puts imaginative garments onto the naked autobiographical basis of his every production.
He switches to writing verse, and this suddenly feels like a reprieve from fiction-making — "no compositions of place, no unnecessary scenes".
As well as his fiction and his musical compositions, hardly discussed by Biswell, he found time to write reviews for The Observer, the Listener, the TLS and also (on one occasion) to review Joseph Kell for the Yorkshire Post, as Anthony Burgess.
His semi-autobiographical novel, The Sheltering Sky, filmed in 1990 by Bertolucci, was one of the seminal novels of mid-20th century American fiction, while his musical compositions, lighter in mood, were critical and commercial successes on Broadway.
Trollope, professional to his fingertips, often kept a calendar for the composition of his fiction.
This leads him to reflect on the fading difference between we and I, on memory as a dream machine, on composition as a fiction-making operation.
One year, Lee's father gave her and Truman a twenty-pound Underwood typewriter, which the two children managed to shift back and forth between their houses and use in the composition of collaborative fictions about the neighbors.
There are also ndungo ("compositions"), which could be fiction or nonfiction and ũhoro ("news"), although news is understood "in a very general sense of happenings which would include actual information of actual happenings, but it could include story.
Writings in various literary genres such as romance, fiction, erotica, folk songs and musical compositions were popular.
Maybe in place of first-year composition we should be teaching first-year fiction.
