Courses
listed below can be tutored by either Sarah Willans or Helena Nelson. If you have a
preference for either, please
email us before paying for your
course to check that your preferred tutor is available. If you don't
state a preference, we will allocate your tutor
based on availability.
Information on how to submit
your work and how to pay for your course appears to the right of this
page. We accept payment
online (using PayPal), or by post. If you need help using this
page, just send us an email
here.
See Sarah and
Helena's personal pages for details of individual critiques and short,
tailor-made courses.
This
ten-unit course is for the practising poet who would like to
work on form and method, for personal satisfaction or eventual
publication. Download a full course outline
here.
Each
course unit includes an assignment made up of several exercises,
including reading, research and the creation of your own new
poems. After submitting each completed assignment to your tutor,
you will receive full feedback on your work along with your next course unit,
usually within two weeks.
You
can take up to eighteen months to complete your course, working
at your own pace and submitting your assignments to your tutor
when you are ready. If you
have any questions about this course that are not answered here,
please
contact us.
Prose should by typed in 12 point Arial on an A4 page, and
double-spaced. Poems should be single-spaced.
We can accept
handwritten copy only if the handwriting is very clear and the
text is well-spaced on the page. Work will be returned as for
hard copy above.
When you
send your work
Always keep a copy. Word Doctors can't
accept responsibility for damage to or loss of original manuscripts, either
in transit or while they are in our care.
How to pay
online
Simply click the 'add
to basket' button
alongside the service you have chosen.
