| When | Saturday 14th June 2025 at 10:00 |
| Where | Town Council Offices, Sturminster Newton The Council Offices, Old Market Hill Sturminster Newton Dorset DT10 1FH |
| Event Type | Writing Workshops |
| Price | £20 |
| Booking | Essential |
| Tickets | |
| Also available at 1855, Market Cross, Sturminster Newton |
Want to sharpen your writing? Understand better what editing is and does?
The “Close Editing” workshop will give you guidance and let you practice
- How to detect the flab in your paragraphs, sentences and word selection
- How to read closely, too, to see reveal the processes that other writers use and learn technique from reading.
We’ll dissect passages from writers to find out how they build their effects, and maybe where they missed opportunities to be even better.
Then we’ll dissect each other’s writing. In advance, you’ll supply passages of no more than 500 words – prose, poetry, dialogue; fiction, non-fiction – and then scrutinise those words under the microscope of close editing.
The session is led by Stur-resident Don Nordberg, a journalist, academic and business writer. He’s authored two books and published dozens of academic papers and millions of words of news stories as a correspondent, editor and executive at Reuters and as a regular contributor to The Economist. He’s also written two PhDs – one in management studies, the other in creative writing.
Don Nordberg is the author of Corporate Governance: Principles and Issues (Sage, 2010) and The Cadbury Code and Recurrent Crisis (Palgrave, 2020) and has held professorial roles at City, University of London, and Bournemouth University. He was a long-serving correspondent and senior editor, mainly for Reuters, working on assignment in some 40 countries. He has finished manuscripts for two novels, one a story of family dysfunction, the other a murder mystery and financial thriller. He studied English literature at the University of Illinois and has PhDs from the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. A long time ago, he published poems in several specialist journals, acted in several plays, and operated sound and lighting for an off-Broadway repertory company.
He now writes two Substack publications:
- Don Nordberg (is/on) Writing – donnordbergwriting.substack.com
- How to govern [not like that] – donaldnordberg.substack.com