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Writing Pain with Sarah Fletcher

Manchester Manchester

Pain can be daunting and abstract, but it is an unavoidable fact of life. In this workshop, we will explore various ways we can write pain. Elaine Scarry writes that pain “does not simply resist language but actively destroys it”. As writers, we rebuild language where there is none to be found. We will consider the […]

Squad 10 Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Poets Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Forming Poems 3

Online

Is rhythm and metre something we should consider in the first stages or only when editing? Do rhythm and sound carry their own kind of meaning? How can we use both to make our work more effective? Using our favourite poems and songs we will examine the rules to learn their magic then write exploring how […]

What if we didn’t start with words?

Leeds

In this workshop we’re going to draw / make design sets / costumes / locations… and then we’ll write for them. I’ve been thinking about staging and the power of set design. Why is it that writers don’t often get to work with set designers early in a development process? What does thinking about image […]

Script Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Awesome Prose: My Name is Why

Online

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 My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay. The text can be bought here. NB: Because of the different types of documents included in […]

Prose Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Writing the Archive

Sheffield

Why should we make art from the archive? Why should we care? How can creativity serve history and vice versa? How do we write into the gaps left by history? What happens when artefacts are removed from their cultural contexts and audiences? Where does the line between poetry, history and myth sit? How does all […]

SFF Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Poets Mini Goals

Online

Mini goals session – setting goals and updating each other on writing news and cultural highlights. Email billie@writingsquad.com for Zoom details.

Writing in Glass

Sunderland

Watch live glass making demonstrations, have a walk round the exhibitions and write in a ‘floating’ pod. We will observe the glassmaking process, watching expert glass demonstrations such as flameworking, glass blowing and lathe techniques. We’ll have a walk through the exhibitions on display and have a stroll by Sunderland’s former shipyard. We’ll do lots […]



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