ZOOM, OPEN ALL SQUADS This workshop looks at the thematic boundaries of poetry – the gnarly, uncomfortable edges – and asks how we can write about things that are inherently unpoetic. There’s a tension between being gratuitously unpleasant vs. making good art that says the unsaid. We’re going to think about where that line is […]
Squad 10 mini goals session. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
Prose Mini Goals. Email billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
Poets mini goals. Email billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC In this workshop, we take Mark's ten questions and apply them to your favourite films, films you hated and some movie classics. Whatever your genre, the ten tests Mark takes you through can be applied to any form of writing – scripts, novels, short stories and even longer narrative […]
We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting, you are welcome to join, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. You will be sent a […]
One of the squad's 3 Awesome Reading groups - designed to think about how we can read as writers. If you want to join us, then here's what you need to know: We will be reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The text can be bought here. The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac […]
Poets mini goals. Email billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC A workshop in bookmaking, writing and play with Stevie Ronnie. We will be discussing the materiality of books and what affect a book’s material aspects can have on the way the reader experiences our words. We'll consider the benefits and drawbacks for writers of producing and distributing your own […]
Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
Prose Mini Goals. Email billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
Mini Goals for poets. Email billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.