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Writing for All: for beginners and practised writers in all genres. We will try out different kinds of writing: short story, flash fiction, poetry and prose poetry looking at structure, point of view, ...

Starts: Sat 07 June 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: OW04

Food is a language in itself - at times delicious, at times dangerous, and always evocative. Writers can use food in a myriad of ways: offering rich sensory detail, cleverly weaving memory through sym ...

Starts: Sat 05 July 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW08

This course is for beginners and practised writers who want to write prose, poetry or script, telling stories, digging into memoir, or catching moments of importance. There will be exercises and promp ...

Starts: Tue 22 July 2025, at 10:30

5 Week Course

Course Code: OW01

For banjo (5-string) players with one year or more experience of popular 5-string banjo styles - Scruggs, melodic style and/or clawhammer. Covering standard banjo repertoire but also exploring additio ...

Starts: Thu 24 July 2025, at 14:00

5 Week Course

Course Code: BD01

What lessons can new and emerging novelists take from Hollywood blockbusters? Does a feature length film have the same structure as a novel? If you can draw lessons from Hollywood will it increase the ...

Starts: Sun 27 July 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW03

This workshop explores whether a poem should always rhyme, what is needed to write poetry, and how to find poems from seemingly nowhere! Poems are everywhere! All you need is to be bold, to be brave, ...

Starts: Sat 02 August 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW04

Couplets are two lines of poetry together, often rhyming, and usually of the same length. Why might poets be drawn to writing poems using couplets? What happens when two lines of poetry pair together? ...

Starts: Sun 03 August 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW05

What is a poem and how might we read one? How do poems communicate and how might we connect more intimately with their words, sounds, and meanings? This condensed course will explore a selection of po ...

Starts: Tue 05 August 2025, at 10:00

2 Day Course

Course Code: SW01

This one-day informal workshop is for people who think they may enjoy writing or who have a particular project in mind but do not know where to start. It helps to have an idea about the process of wri ...

Starts: Thu 07 August 2025, at 10:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW06

In an age of distraction, globalisation, and reliance on technology, we are becoming an increasingly dissociated society. How can we use writing to bring ourselves back into our bodies - and how do we ...

Starts: Thu 07 August 2025, at 14:00

1 Day Course

Course Code: SW02

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