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Lyric Essays (1)

Date / Time: 19 January 2026 - 26 January 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

Explore the hybridity and fluidity of the lyric essay, planting the seeds for your own creative experiments, and using the lyric essay as a space of wonder and creative liberation.

 

Simon

Queer Nature

Date / Time: 20 January 2026 - 10 February 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

This workshop will explore queerness in nature i.e. the glorious and surprising variations in the sex & gender characteristics & behaviours that exist in the animal and plant worlds.

 

Simon

Mining Memory

Date / Time: 28 January 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

This one-off workshop will help participants uncover memories and develop poems, exploring word associations to elevate narratives to the next level.

 

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Lyric Essays (2)

Date / Time: 02 February 2026 - 09 February 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

Explore the hybridity and fluidity of the lyric essay, planting the seeds for your own creative experiments, and using the lyric essay as a space of wonder and creative liberation.

 

Rayna

Writing Flash Fiction (Online)

Date / Time: 04 February 2026 - 25 February 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

Explore different elements of flash fiction, such as structure, character voice and word choice, that make stories come alive for the reader, and produce your own.

 

Bethany Handley - Copy

Creative Non-Fiction As Activism (Online)

Date / Time: 17 February 2026 - 10 March 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

Learn how to use creative non-fiction as a tool for social change with award-winning writer Bethany Handley. Join our four-part online workshop series.

 

Maya Little

Labour of Love or Dirty Work? (Online)

Date / Time: 02 March 2026 - 23 March 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue: Online

Think and write through the way work impacts our selves, relationships and communities. This is a chance to unpick your relationship with work and feel out the good and bad of it.

 

Shazia Altaf

Word Magic (Middlesbrough)

Date / Time: 23 March 2026 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Venue: Central Library

Let’s discover and see where the seeds and magic come from in our stories… In this workshop we’ll look and explore the sparks and seeds of our imagination tuning in by working with musical and visual stimulus.

 

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