One of the very best ways to become a better writer is to read widely and thoughtfully. Building on Emma and Matt’s great work in establishing the Awesome Play Text / Screenplay Reading Club, and Francesca's prose club, Malika and Stevie are hosting the Awesome Poetry Reading Club to focus on how we can read […]
SQUAD 10 If you are a Squad grad (1-9), and would like to be added to the reserve list for this workshop, please email Billie on billie@writingsquad.com An uncompromising workshop in which Leone will explore how to edit the first draft of a short story and offer some hard golden rules that will last you […]
Squad 10 mini goals session. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
Mini goals for prose writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
OPEN TO ALL SQUADS, YORK - VENUE TBC This session will explore the relationship between text and music, and the numerous ways the two can interrelate in opera, art song and other classical forms (eg choral music). We will take a look at the different ways a collaborative relationship between a writer and a composer […]
Mini goals for script writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.
Mini goals for poets. Email billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.
ZOOM, OPEN ALL SQUADS How can we make the places and locations in our writing feel three-dimensional and “real”? How do we avoid falling into clichés when writing about landscape and place? How can we capture a real/imagined place through senses, description, speech and muddled language? Can settings ever be as important as characters?
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC Now it is a well-known fact that literature is constantly in conversation with other literary text in some shape or form. This workshop will exploit this tradition as the starting point for writing our own poems. We will turn up to the blank notebook page armed with material, that […]
Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
It is easy enough to trigger a storm on Twitter, but some stories create a hurricane. ‘Who Is The Bad Art Friend?’, a New York Times Article by Robert Kolker, was one such story and has whipped up a slew of newspaper articles, Twitter threads, and memes ever since. Centred around the court case of Dawn Dorland […]
A session exploring what trauma is, its relationship to creativity and strategies to develop a trauma-informed workshop practice. NB: This workshop will be from 2-4pm in MMU's Arts and Humanities Building, Manchester. What is trauma? What is PTSD? Why does it matter for workshop/arts facilitators? When difficult memories or subjects arise, what practical approaches or […]