Reading Aloud Courses for Writers

Reading Your Work to an Audience

One day -  for writers and poets

• Reading aloud: the guidelines
• Speaking: relaxation, breathing, voice and microphone
• Non verbal communication: expression, body language and gesture
• Creating character and holding audience interest
• Reading exercises
• Discussion
• Post course: Continuing professional development

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For poets and writers, reading your work well to an audience can heighten your public image and the chance of making a sale.

But all too often the inexperienced reader’s problems – that ‘poetic voice’, with its wistful fall and repetitive drone, reading while staring fixedly at the script and failing to engage with the audience – may have quite  the opposite result.

So what three things does the writer or poet need to learn to fix these problems,  to entertain and to make the sale?

• Vocal variety through use of  emphasis, pauses, change of pace and volume
• The feeling that ideas are occurring spontaneously with apparent changes of thought and direction, and
• Audience engagement through talking directly to them, using expression, eye contact, body language and gesture

All these skills are taught and practiced on our course

Reading Your Work to an Audience

One day -  for writers and poets

• Reading aloud: the guidelines
• Speaking: relaxation, breathing, voice and microphone
• Non verbal communication: expression, body language and gesture
• Creating character and holding audience interest
• Reading exercises
• Discussion
• Post course: Continuing professional development