Joy will ensure you know how to put the basics in place for good creative writing practice, teach you how to make writing part of your daily routine, and show you how to find your voice and enjoy your writing. By the end of the day you will have plotted an outline, thought about the setting and characters, and explored [read more…]
View all stories
The Bath Festival Finale Weekend
The Finale Weekend is an extravaganza of music, fun and great food, with something for everyone. Two music stages, one spoken word stage and a packed full of fun family zone with craft, workshops, music and storytelling.
The Bath Festival
For the 70th anniversary of Bath Festivals, The Bath Festival returned as a 17 day multi-arts festival from 11 to 27 May 2018, celebrating the city with music and literature at its heart, engaging with the wider community and bringing the streets of Bath to life. The festival, once again, brought together some of the world’s leading writers, musicians and [read more…]
Character Alchemy
You’ll examine the poet’s craft and bring those tools to your prose, and you’ll also be transforming prose to poetry – magic! Ideal for poets and prose-writers alike, this workshop is designed to: help you imagine new characters, develop and depict existing characters in your work, explore the tools that poets use to find the very best words, give you [read more…]
Work In Progress
This series of six sessions is designed to help you develop a piece of creative prose writing – short stories, novel extracts and memoir all welcome. With regular meetings, small workshop groups and (super strict!) deadlines, we’ll help you keep your writing on track. You’ll offer feedback on other people’s work and receive focused critique as the weeks progress. You’ll [read more…]
Tears in the Fence Festival
Literary magazine, Tears in the Fence, will host their next Festival on 20th to 22nd September 2019. We are looking forward to another stimulating and inspiring weekend with a strong sense of community and engagement where everyone has an opportunity to read and speak on what matters to them. Guest readers will include Tim Allen, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Andrew Duncan, Richard [read more…]
Tears in the Fence Workshop Group
These workshops offer more intense writing experiences for published poets wishing to develop to a more advanced writing level and to interact with other poets that wish to experiment and move beyond the mundane. The workshops are structured as follows: 09:30-10:00 Refreshments of tea or coffee (Included in the price) 10:00-12:30 (approx) A short talk on the workshop’s theme given [read more…]
Speakeasy
Share your work, meet other writers and discover the new with compere soon to be confirmed… Are you a storyteller, a poet, a fictional writer, a comic or perhaps a musician? Well, this is where we want you! Come and experience some of Cornwall’s up and coming writing talent and discover the new. Do you want your ears tickled? Then [read more…]
Funding for Writing Projects
This two half-day course will look at what types of writing projects might attract public and private funding and how to make a good application. It will focus on funding from Arts Council England through their Lottery Project Grants scheme and their Developing Your Creative Practice scheme. The course will look at the qualities of a fundable project, making a [read more…]
Short Course: Advanced Poetry II
Building on the success of the Advanced Poetry course that he ran last year, Dr Gregory Leadbetter will introduce both contemporary and historical poems that invite participants to consider the poet’s use of language in depth, and the ways in which the poet’s craft includes that of a critic and a thinker. Class time will focus upon guided reading, reflection [read more…]