The Magic of Creative Writing - Opinion

Professional opinion on your work

This is an opportunity for you to send your texts by e-mail to The Magic of Creative Writing in order to get a professional opinion on your work by our teachers.

In order to do so, send a maximum of ten pages to one of our teachers. The cost is USD 49 for a maximum of ten pages. You can either send your text via e-mail or by post and it will be returned to you the same way.

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Skillroad AB
Konstepidemins väg 6
413 14 Göteborg
Tel: (46) 31 82 26 90

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Lars Hesslind

Was born in 1935 in Masthugget, in the heart of Göteborg, but grew up in Sandarna, a poor working-class district in the western part of the city. The family lived in a building set aside for accommodating large working-class families, which has made its mark on Hesslind's writing. As a fifteen-year-old in the early fifties, he met the Paravan group, a constellation of artists. Active in this group were authors and artists like Karl-Axel Häglund, Evert Lundström, Kent Andersson, Bengt Anderberg, Peter Weiss. The members of the Paravan Group were the ones that influenced him to embark on his vocation as an author.

He studied to become a chemical engineer at night school at Netzler's Technical Institute and worked on his writing parallel to working as a service engineer in the paint industry before becoming a full-time author in 1976.

Besides being an author, Lars Hesslind is also deeply involved in the problems connected with children's reading and language disabilities. He has written several books on the subject based on his own studies of children at junior schools. His ideas and conclusions have had a great impact on the work in schools and nursery schools concerning children and language.

Hesslind set up the school, the School of Writing, at Marstrand in 1983 and has been this summer school's principal from the start. In 1993 Lars Hesslind was awarded an honorary diploma by SCIRA (Swedish Council of International Reading Association). SCIRA is affiliated to Unesco and the diploma is awarded to people who have contributed a great deal to the promotion of reading.

Lars Hesslind's biography.

Leonid Zhukhovitiski

Born in Kiev in 1932. Has published 40 books and 15 plays that have been translated to 40 different languages. He is presently completing the last short story in a collection of 12 short stories on the theme love. The collection of short stories will be published in two volumes. Leonid Zhukhovitski is living and working in Moscow. He is engaged in writing articles, short stories and essays for various periodicals and newspapers and has appeared on television in his capacity as author and writer. He is secretary for "The Russian Writer Union." Leonid, former lecturer and teacher at Marstrand's School of Creative Writing, is the founder and instructor of a course in Creative Writing at Moscow University which is a result of his tuition experience in Sweden. Leonid was the first one to be awarded "The Literary Moscow Award" which was instituted this year. Leonid was awarded the prize for best short story in the three-category award. The other two are for best poetry and novel. He has also been awardes a prize at the Vaslav Festival.

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