Roland Watson-Grant
Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, How to Pick Up a Land Crab is a class aimed at equipping you with techniques to capture your story from the right angle and manage all its moving parts.
We write fiction to tell deeper truths, but we can also use fiction techniques to write non-fiction. Engaging an audience is about how you tell it, how you bend time, how you choose language to immerse readers in your short story, memoir, travel piece or feature article. Let’s explore the corners of your experience where unique images, memories and writing ideas can be found alive and kicking.
How to Pick Up a Land Crab will cover:
- Extending Short Stories into Long Form
- Fiction vs Creative Non-Fiction
- Image and voice
- Finding themes and ideas for both genres
- Writing Techniques
- Where to Begin and How to End
Roland Watson-Grant is a Jamaican novelist, screenwriter and travel writer. His first novel Sketcher (2013) was published by Alma Books (UK) and has been translated into Turkish and Spanish. Skid, his second novel, was published in 2015 by Alma Books (UK).
In 2021, Roland Watson-Grant won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region with his story, “The Disappearance of Mumma Dell” and was longlisted for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Prize. In 2022 he was shortlisted for the ALCS Tom-Gallon Award in the UK. His Creative Non-Fiction includes “Lessons from An Obeahman’s Son” and “My Soul Has Holes In It”
He is a 2018 recipient of a Musgrave Award for Literature in his home country; his nonfiction work has been archived by the Smithsonian Libraries.
Roland’s short stories appear online in Granta, Pree and Doek Literary Magazine (Namibia). Roland continues to judge international writing competitions and conduct writing workshops at home and abroad.
About Us
PREE is an online platform for lively, vital writing from the Caribbean. Our scope is wide, ranging from fiction and poetry to art writing, non-fiction, interviews and experimental short to medium form film, videos and texts. We are the pre-eminent forum for writing in, from and on the region, a showcase for the exceptional prose and creative expression the Caribbean is fast developing a reputation for.
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