About the course
Work takes up much of the space in our lives, but often doesn’t take up as much space in our writing. These workshops will explore the challenges of writing about work: its particular language, its emotional affects and its political implications. We’ll think and write through the way capitalistic work affects ourselves, relationships and communities, and how the idea of ‘work’ functions in our lives beyond the notion of paid labour. These workshops are particularly suited to poets and short fiction writers, but we’ll also draw on music and novels.
We’ll consider texts by Bryony Littlefair, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Olga Ravn, The Burning Hell, and others. Across the four weeks, you’ll create work digging into:
- Work and absurdity: Playing with the idiosyncrasies of working practices, pushing them to extremes, recontextualising them.
- Work and form: Exploring the language and forms we encounter in work: out of offices, personal development forms, the work WhatsApp group.
- Work and feeling: Writing into the good and the bad – purpose, intention, disillusionment, exhaustion.
- Work and futures: Speculating on our future roles in the world, and how they might grow from the present.
About the tutor
Maya Little is a writer and theatremaker. She was a Roundhouse Young Poet 23 – 24 and the winner of the 2024 Creative Future poetry award. She has been published in The Rambling, The Broken Spine, and Drawn to the Light, among others. Her theatre work has been commissioned by Chronic Insanity, and she likes making work about connection, climate, capitalism, and anything that’s a bit weird. She is a regular workshop facilitator for the Oxford Poetry Library and Fusion Arts.
Who is it for?
All underrepresented writers—those who face barriers to opportunities due to mental health issues, physical health/disability, sensory impairment, learning disabilities, neurodivergencce, substance misuse, survivors, working class backgrounds, and those from the LGBTQIA+ community, Black, Asian, traveler, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds.
Dates & Time:
Mondays: 6, 13, 20, 27 October
6 – 8pm
This course takes place online via Zoom. Links will be sent seven days prior to the first session, and again the day of the first session.
Access:
You can see our full access commitments here. Please add any additional requirements when booking.
Cost:
£50 / £25 concessions
In order to make our resources stretch further, we have to subsidise some workshops with nominal fees well below most online courses. The more who book at full price, the more we’ll be able to offer.
Concessionary places are available for those on benefits, pensioners, unemployed/underemployed or on low wages. We do not ask for proof that you qualify.
If concessionary spaces are unavailable and/or the course is fully booked, we can add you to the waiting list if you e-mail info@creativefuture.org.uk.
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