“I came to the class with a few ideas; four years later I had a major literary award. If you want to learn the ins and outs of fiction writing this is the course for you.”
Dreda Say Mitchell secured the last place on our writing course in September 2001. Her debut novel Running Hot received rave reviews and in November 2005 won the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel. Dreda has gone on to write three novels: Killer Tune, Geezer Girls, and Gangster Girl, all published by Hodder.