The two-day workshop will begin by enabling participants to have a clear sense of their readership. Having done that, it will familiarise the participants with the concept of building a narrative arc for one's manuscript which helps hold the work together. We will then explore various writing devices that help in turning research writing, which might be reading dry, dull, or too obscure, into an engaging and cogent narrative. In effect, we will work towards strengthening the participants' authorial voices. 

All writing involves rewriting, restructuring, or tighter language edits, and the workshop aims also at equipping its learners to recognise what level of work is needed and then doing it successfully to have a viable, i.e., publishable, book manuscript in hand.

During the workshop the learner will also be armed with information about what the publisher might be looking for in a book proposal, and how they will assess a given manuscript to test its viability for publication. In doing so, we work with the participants to figure out how best to approach the publishers most suited to their work. 

This workshop is open to all registered Krea faculty and post-doctoral fellows