During this weekend we will discover ways and means to:
- Draw on our own history for inspiration
- Assemble the intricacies of our lives to create a narrative
- Find a form that honours the nature of our memories
- Preserve the past for ourselves and for others
- Perceive the fictional potential tied up in our own experience
Using a combination
of simple guided exercises, private and group
reflection, quotes and insights from authors in the field, we shall
witness how the writing process can illuminate the past so that all
the details of our lives are exposed for their originality and humour,
poetry and poignancy.
However, these
stories need not be the ones of climbing Everest, of
winning Oscars and of discovering Penicillin. Just as compelling are
those stories full of the minutiae of family life, of growing up, of
discovering new worlds, of relationships that blossom and of
relationships that break down, of chance encounters and inevitable
goodbyes and of dreams met and fantasies unfulfilled.
By recording
these moments, we take the every day, the domestic,
the familiar and transform them into something beautiful and rare.
We just have to acknowledge the significance of these events and
believe that we have a story to tell.
By virtue of
allowing our specific human experiences to become
words on paper, the ordinary becomes extraordinary and our
story shines through as something truly unique and quietly
magnificent.
weekend
workshops
introduction
to
memoir writing
introduction
to
fiction writing
workshops
in
creative writing &
the visual arts
Price: £60 for the two days. A £20 deposit secures you a place.
Location: Courses and Worshops are currently run in the Wiveliscombe/Milverton and Taunton area, Somerset, UK
Date: Please contact Briony for details of when the next Two-day Workshop is due to commence.