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SUMMARY:Labour of Love or Dirty Work? (Online)
DESCRIPTION:About the course\nWork takes up much of the space in our lives\, but often doesn’t take up as much space in our writing. Not only do many of us labour for pay\, but capitalistic ideas of work seep out and affect our lives more broadly: care work\, emotional labour and the various transactions that lace through our relationships with others. \nWe’ll think and write through the way work impacts our selves\, relationships and communities. \nThese workshops will explore the challenges of writing about work: its particular language\, its emotional affects and its political implications. This is a chance to unpick your relationship with work\, feel out the good and bad of it\, and get out your frustration about that pointless meeting. \nThese workshops are particularly suited to poets and short fiction writers\, but we’ll also draw on music and non-fiction. You don’t need to have or have had a ‘job’ to take part in these workshops – work is broad and embedded in our world. \nWe’ll consider writing by poets like Bryony Littlefair and Anthony Vahni Capildeo\, fiction writers like Olga Ravn and Sakaya Murata\, and make reference to political non-fiction by Ann Boyer and David Graeber. \nAcross the four weeks\, you’ll create work digging into: \n\n\nWork and absurdity: Playing with the idiosyncrasies of working practices\, pushing them to extremes\, and recontextualisting ‘working’ language and structures. \n\n\n\n\nWork and feeling: Writing into the good and the bad: purpose\, intention\, disillusionment\, exhaustion. \n\n\nWork and relationships: Navigating different kinds of labour\, writing about the work of care and how care does or doesn’t show up at work. \n\n\nWork and futures: Speculating on our future roles in the world\, and how they might grow from the present political climate. \n\n\nAbout the tutor\nMaya 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 was shortlisted for the 2025 Bridport Poetry Prize. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Magma and Under the Radar\, 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. \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. \nDates & Time:\nTuesdays: 8 – 29 September \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. \nThis course is best suited to intermediate and above writers. \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/labour-of-love-or-dirty-work-online-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:(M)other Tongue: Writing Between Languages (Online)
DESCRIPTION:About the course\nHow do you build bridges between languages – and what does it take to burn them? \nNo one better to answer than exophonic writers\, those writing in a language they weren’t born into: Elif Shafak\, Kazuo Ishiguro\, Vladimir Nabokov\, Jhumpa Lahiri\, and Khaled Hosseini\, to name but a few. Why do writers shed their mother tongues and how do they grow another tongue? \nFind out in this hybrid poetry/prose workshop on multilingualism and exophony led by award-winning Swiss writer and scientist Jasmin Allenspach. Over four weeks\, we will explore: \n\nhow language is woven into the very fabric of our identity\,\nhow multilingual writers interweave and translate between their multiple identities\,\nand what tools we can borrow from these bridge builders for our own poetry and prose\, even if English is our only tongue.\n\nWhether you are multilingual/exophonic or an English-only writer curious about examining your craft from a global perspective\, this workshop is for you if you want to discover how your writing is shaped – and can be elevated – by your (m)other tongue. \nAbout the tutor\nJasmin Allenspach is a Swiss writer\, educator\, and award-winning physicist living in London. Speaking seven languages\, she writes in English despite her mother tongue being Swiss German. She is a Young Trustee of the London Library\, where she was formerly an Emerging Writer\, and a Barbican Young Poet. Most recently\, her writing has been nominated for a Forward Prize and recognised by the National Poetry Competition\, Magma Poetry Competition\, and the Platinum Poetry Prize at the Creative Future Writers’ Award. \nJasmin has performed at major arts venues such as Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre\, and on BBC Radio. She runs an international writing talk series and is currently launching the UK’s first collective for exophonic writers and researchers. When not dissecting words or equations\, she trains in classical ballet. \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 intermediate and above writers\, but beginners are also welcome. \nDates & Time:\nWednesdays: 23 September – 14 October \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/mother-tongue-writing-between-languages-online/
LOCATION:Online
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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:\nTuesdays: 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/
LOCATION: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/
LOCATION:Online
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