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SUMMARY:Writing Creative Non-Fiction (Online)
DESCRIPTION:About the course\nWant to tell your own life story in a fresh and dynamic way? Creative non-fiction takes autobiographical writing to the next level with literary and poetic techniques. Looking at examples of brilliant contemporary life writing from authors such as Maggie Nelson\, Carmen Maria Machado\, Cyrus Grace Dunham and Claudia Rankine\, we will explore how to find the emotional truth of your personal narrative. Whether you want to write about childhood\, adolescence\, or a day in your life from a week ago\, nothing is off limits. \nThis course is ideal for all underrepresented writers who are open-minded and willing to dive into the depths of our lives. The aim is to create work that is based on fact but is as entertaining and engaging as the best fiction. The goal is funny\, moving and daring prose\, no matter what type of life you have led. \nAbout the tutor\nHarper Walton is the author of the fiction collection Midnight Movies (Femmesocial Press) and the poetry collections The Ballad of a Bloodless Hangnail (New Words Press) and Common Only in Name (Rival Books). They edited the anthology Carnival at the End of the World (Buoy Press). They are a literary editor for Seedlings Press. They have a Master’s Degree in creative writing from the Paris School of Arts and Culture. Their work is featured by Fourteen Poems\, Magma\, 1883 Magazine\, Whitechapel Gallery\, Venice Architecture Biennale and more.  They teach creative writing at City Lit. \nWho is it for?\nAll underrepresented writers—those who face barriers to opportunities dbut ue to mental health issues\, physical health/disability\, sensory impairment\, learning disabilities\, neurodivergence\, substance misuse\, survivors\, carers\, working class backgrounds\, and those from the LGBTQIA+ community\, Black\, Asian\, traveller\, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds. \nThis course is best suited to intermediate writers\, but beginner and advanced writers are also welcome. \nDates & Time:\nWednesdays: 4 – 25 November \n6-8 pm \nThis 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.  \nAccess:\nYou can see our full access commitments here. \n\nWhen you book\, you can let us know about any access needs you have and we will do our best to accommodate them.\nWorkshops are not usually recorded. A recording can be requested by someone if they have a specific access need. All participants will be told in advance if this is the case.\nPresentations and course handouts will be provided.\nOur full workshop guidelines are here.\n\nCost:\n£50 / £25 concessions  \nIn 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.  \nConcessionary places are available for those on benefits\, pensioners\, unemployed/underemployed or on low wages. We do not ask for proof that you qualify.   \nIf 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. \nOur workshops are very popular and we want to make sure everyone has a chance to take part. We limit registration to one course per person in each round of workshops opening in January\, April and September. Thanks for your understanding. \nOther workshops\nWe are offering as many workshops and as many places as our resources allow—they are heavily subsidised by our limited funding.   \nYou might also want to have a look at other workshops on offer elsewhere.  \nPlease subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date on our other workshops.
URL:https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/writing-creative-non-fiction-online/
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SUMMARY:Surface Tension: Poetry and Visual Art (Online)
DESCRIPTION:About the course\nWhat happens when a poem begins to think like a painting?\nIn this four-week workshop\, we’ll explore the ways visual art can challenge and introduce alterity into what we write about\, as well as how we write. \nLooking closely at paintings and photographs by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler\, Salman Toor\, Joan Mitchell\, Ithell Colquhoun\, Rachel Jones\, Claude Cahun\, Francesca Woodman and Pixy Liao\, we’ll consider how questions of surface\, abstraction\, gesture and composition might find new lives in language. \nWe’ll consider questions such as: \n\nHow can a brushstroke be reflected in a line?\nWhat happens when syntax behaves like colour?\nHow can the frame of a photograph reshape a line-break?\nWhat happens when language prioritises texture over narrative?\n\nThrough close reading/viewing and free writing\, we’ll experiment with and write our own poems that borrow from the logic of painting and photography. \nTogether\, we’ll embrace the page as a visual field in its own right. We’ll explore how ways of seeing might become ways of writing\, and how we can develop new approaches to image\, form and poetic attention. \nAbout the tutor\nChloe Elliott is a winner of the New Poets Prize as well as the Creative Future Writers’ Award. Her writing features in Aesthetica\, Corridor8\, bath magg\, Basket Magazine\, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World\, berlin lit\, Magma\, The North\, Propel\, and Strix\, amongst others. Her pamphlet Encyclopaedia is published with Smith|Doorstop\, and her micro chapbook DREAMSIMULATION is with Carmen et Error. \nWho is it for?\nAll underrepresented writers—those who face barriers to opportunities due to mental health issues\, physical health/disability\, sensory impairment\, learning disabilities\, neurodivergence\, substance misuse\, survivors\, carers\, working class backgrounds\, and those from the LGBTQIA+ community\, Black\, Asian\, traveller\, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds. \nThis course is best suited to writers of any level\, beginner to advanced. \nDates & Time:\nMondays: 23 November – 14 December \n6-8 pm \nThis 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.  \nAccess:\nYou can see our full access commitments here. \n\nWhen you book\, you can let us know about any access needs you have and we will do our best to accommodate them.\nWorkshops are not usually recorded. A recording can be requested by someone if they have a specific access need. All participants will be told in advance if this is the case.\nPresentations and course handouts will be provided.\nOur full workshop guidelines are here.\n\nCost:\n£55 / £27.50 concessions \nIn 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. \nConcessionary places are available for those on benefits\, pensioners\, unemployed/underemployed or on low wages. We do not ask for proof that you qualify. \nIf 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. \nOur workshops are very popular and we want to make sure everyone has a chance to take part. We limit registration to one course per person in each round of workshops opening in January\, April and September. Thanks for your understanding. \nOther workshops\nWe are offering as many workshops and as many places as our resources allow—they are heavily subsidised by our limited funding. \nYou might also want to have a look at other workshops on offer elsewhere.  \nPlease subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date on our other workshops.
URL:https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/surface-tension-poetry-and-visual-art-online/
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