WORKSHOP: On Style with Taylor Burns

In this workshop, Birmingham-based novelist Taylor Burns takes you through his thoughts on Style – its benefits, demerits, history, practitioners, looking at sentence and paragraph and how these things build a book before anything else.

Style as inescapable despite modern tendencies to overlook a writer’s sentence-making in favour of other modes of delivery: theme, plot, structure, identity, politics. Style across genres. Will a novelist’s criticism allow their style? Will a journalist’s fiction suffer without the factual scaffolding? Style is intrinsic, see. It is, as Martin Amis said, morality.