I have been sent the following information by Sarah Kelly about the Leeds Trinity University Writers' Festival:
Wednesday 25th March
LEEDS TRINITY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Leeds Trinity University is holding its 11th
annual Writers’ Festival Day. On 25 March,
students, staff and members of the local
community will once again come together
to explore the range of possibilities opened
up by working with professional writers.
The day will commence with refreshments
from 10.00am followed by workshops. Each
workshop will last 2 hours and will run once
in the morning commencing 11.00am and
once in the afternoon commencing 2pm.
Lunch may be purchased from the
University Dining Room or Atrium Café, or
participants may bring their own. There will
be a programme of lunchtime readings from
the University’s Writing Aloud project.
The day will close with readings by our
featured writers and end at 5.00pm. The
charge for the day is £10 (Leeds Trinity
University students and alumni free).
For more information contact:
Sarah Kelly
Tel: 01132837126
Email: s.kelly@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Timetable:
10.00:
Coffee & Welcome
(Conference Suite/AG32)
11.00-1.00:
Morning Workshops
1.00-2.00:
Lunch
(Available to purchase from the
Atrium or dining room)
1.15-1.45:
‘Writing Out Loud’ readings
introduced by Dr Amina Alyal
(Conference Suite/AG32)
2.00-4.00:
Afternoon Workshops
4.00-4.45:
Readings by visiting writers
(Conference Suite/AG32)
5.00:
Close
WRITERS’ FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS
BOB BEAGRIE
Hotseating Heteroglossia
What do you do when the idea runs out
of steam? In this workshop Bob will lead a
series of guided writing activities exploring
the use of different tongues, tones and
tellings, divergence and digression, to
reinvigorate the weary text and harness its
latent energy.
Bob has recently published Yoik (Cinnamon
Press 2008), The Seer Sung Husband
(Smokestack Books 2010), Glass Characters
(Red Squirrel Press 2011), KIDS (Mudfog
Press 2012) and SAMPO: Heading Further
North (Red Squirrel Press 2015). His work
has appeared in numerous anthologies
and magazines and has been translated
into Finnish, Urdu, Swedish, Dutch,
Spanish, Estonian and Karelian. He lives in
Middlesbrough in the North East of England
and is a senior lecturer in creative writing at
Teesside University.
PAT BORTHWICK
Shifting your footprints: Widening your range
Do your poems trudge down the page
leaving the same footprints? Would you
like to take more risks but are not sure how
to? In this workshop, we’ll explore a range
of effects a poet can employ. Poets such
as Louis Glück and Theodore Roethke are
masters at keeping readers engaged. We’ll
look at a range of poetry to see the many
ways this can be done. Then we’ll ‘risk’
writing our own using our widened poetic
sensibilities. The workshop will end with a
short readback/feedback session. Hopefully,
your poems will no longer ‘trudge’!
Pat is a well established prize-winning poet
with several collections and awards. She
has been a Creative Writing Tutor for Leeds
University, the OU and the OCA having
been a founder member and former Chair
of NAWE –the National Association for
Writers in Education. Pat was a latecomer
to poetry after a professional life as a
Ceramic Sculptor. She enjoys ‘stealing
from’, and experimenting with, techniques
from different disciplines.
BECKY CHERRIMAN
Alchemising the ordinary
In this practical and stimulating workshop,
superstition and science will be used to
alchemise our ideas into original characters
and narratives worth writing and reading.
Drawing on the discipline of magical realism
for inspiration, we will find beauty in the
mundane and find new ways of creating the
extraordinary from the ordinary. There will
be opportunities for feedback on your work
and the workshop is open to poets and
prose writers alike.
Becky is a writer, creative writing facilitator
and performer based in Leeds. She is
currently compiling her first poetry
collection with the help of Cinnamon Press.
Her poem ‘Wolves’ is to be published by
Bloodaxe in 2015. Becky has also written
two novels, her latest in the magical realist
form. A trilogy of her magical realist flash
fiction is to be published by Mother’s Milk in
March.Competition successes include being
shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize,
second prize in the Ilkley Literature Festival
Open Mic and first prize in The Speakeasy
Open for her poem ‘Namesake’, an extract
of which was published in Issue 61 of
Mslexia. After previous commissions from
Morley Literature Festival and Grassington
Festival, Becky is now working with Steve
Toase and IMove on a commissioned
project called Haunt.
VALERIE HARKNESS
Keep on smiling and the
World will smile with
you … (maybe)
If you like stories infused with humour,
come and find out how to write them!
In this workshop, we will read a range of
stories (or relevant passages) with a view to
identifying some facets and characteristics
of fun stories. What writing strategies are
used? What skills are developed? How
does the author make us smile? We will
then apply and practise these strategies
using a variety of activities. At the end of
the workshop, we will share our fun writing
with the other participants in the group and
… smile together!
Valerie is a published author: her first
collection ‘Petite Vie’ recounts the story
of the adoption of Valerie’s little girl,
Susie. This book was swiftly followed
by a number of others, amongst which
‘Doublure’ (Polder), ‘Je glisse’ (Jacques
Andre Editeur, Lyon), and ‘Tombe’ (Editions
de l’Atlantique). Her latest book (‘Lundi’
Editions Henry) was very well received and
praised for its original and empathic style.
Valerie performs and offers presentations
and workshops in France and in the UK in
both French and English. Valerie has first
hand experience of life abroad and she likes
to take things with ‘a pinch of salt’ and a
‘big dose of humour’. She invites you to
join her on this energetic, fun and poetic
journey in the world of funny short stories.
CHAR MARCH
Here’s Looking at you
This fast-paced workshop will help you
look at yourself both as a writer and
as a character. You’ll be using quick
questionnaires, mirrors (and other reflective
surfaces), and writing creatively about what
you discover. All this in 2 hours, so come
with enthusiasm, and prepared to have fun!
Char is a freelance writer with 20 years of
experience in running great workshops. She
has won a mass of awards for poetry, short
fiction and as a playwright. Her credits
include: a short story collection Something
Vital Fell Through, five poetry collections
including The Thousand Natural Shocks, six
BBC Radio 4 plays, and seven stage plays.
SOPHIE NICHOLLS
Into the Woods: Writing from the creative
unconscious
What happens when we allow ourselves
to dream? Your creative unconscious
knows exactly how to help you to find the
right words, solve problems and create
compelling narratives, characters and
imagery. In this very practical session,
we’ll explore simple exercises and the
power of archetypes and symbols to free
ourselves up to create new work and/
or find new ways through old writing
problems. Whether you’re writing poetry,
prose fiction, screenplays or life writing,
this session will help you to bring a fresh
approach to working with stories and ideas.
Sophie is a novelist and poet. Her short
poetry collection, Refugee (2011), is
published by Salt and her debut bestselling
novel, The Dress (2011), has been translated
into Italian and French. Her doctoral
research at Sussex University established
a model for the use of creative writing in
education and health care settings. She
is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at
Teesside University and is currently working
on her fifth novel.
ALAN SMITH
Something to try when you’re stuck
The worst thing for a writer is to be stuck
in a barren place. This will be an exercise
in how to unstick ourselves. I often feel
that I have nothing to say until I sit
down and begin to spin something out of
nothing. Sometimes a given method, a
learned routine, is of more use to a writer
than anything else. I shall invite you to
begin with a simple act of deliberate
imagining and then write this imagining
in a bare, skeletal fashion. I hope that I
can then persuade you to edit and rewrite
and develop this raw text using simple,
prescribed techniques. We shall have
the time to submit our scripts to critical
scrutiny and then consider re-rewriting or
perhaps take the decision to leave things as
they are.
Alan has written novels and plays and was,
for many years, an occasional journalist
with the TES, The Scotsman and The
Guardian. His latest book, Her Majesty’s
Philosophers, was recently published by
Waterside Press and his play, Tell Me, was
staged this summer in the Flash Theatre
Festival at The Derngate, Northampton. His
writing is heavily influenced by the fourteen
years he spent teaching Philosophy and
Literature in prisons. He is currently writing
a novel set in York and Oklahoma City.
ANDY WILLOUGHBY
Life goes to the Movies - Writing from Movie Memory,
screen icons, stills and mise-en-scene
Using film, film stills and fake film stills
as inspiration we will write prose, poetry
and short scripts to pay homage to and
to interrogate the notion of icons and
iconography whilst considering how the
forms and myths created by popular cinema
inform the way we tell our real life stories
and are used to construct our sense of
self. We will also draw upon models of
movie-inspired writing by Frank O’ Hara,
Jack Kerouac, Roger McGough, Margaret
Atwood, Sharon Olds and others to shape
our own original work.
Andy is the former Poet Laureate of
Middlesbrough and has had his work
published by various publishers in full
collections, pamphlets and collaborative
international projects. He is a social
playwright, often working in collaboration
with disadvantaged groups using interactive
creative writing and Boalian and Brechtian
techniques to create plays to be performed
by participants as well as creating more
traditional theatre. He has had performance
work commissioned by the BBC and
the EuropeanCity of Culture 2011: KIDS,
with Bob Beagrie, has had residencies at
key national and international venues.
His latest publication is Sampo:Heading
Further North - poems inspired by Kalevala
a joint collection with Bob Beagrie (Red
Squirrel 2015) . He is a senior lecturer in
Creative Writing and Literature at Teesside
University, with over 20 years teaching
experience. He runs Ek Zuban Press and
Literature Development with Beagrie and is
co director of Teesside’s legendary Electric
Kool-Aid Cabaret of the Spoken Word.
APPLICATION FORM
The day will commence with refreshments from 10.00am followed by the workshops. Each
workshop will last 2 hours and will run once in the morning commencing 11.00am and once
in the afternoon commencing 2pm. Lunch may be purchased from the University Dining
Room or Atrium Café, or participants may bring their own. There will be a programme of
lunchtime readings from the University’s published writers, and the day will close with
readings by our featured guest writers and end at 5.00pm.
Workshops:
1. Hotseating Heteroglossia: Bob Beagrie
2. Shifting Your Footprints: Widening Your Range: Pat Borthwick
3. Alchemising the Ordinary: Becky Cherriman
4. Keep on smiling and the world will smile with you … (maybe): Valerie Harkness
5. Here’s looking at you: Char March
6. Into the woods: Writing from the creative unconscious: Sophie Nicholls
7. Something To Try When You’re Stuck: Alan Smith
8. Life Goes to the Movies - writing from movie memory, screen icons, stills and mise-en-scene: Andy Willoughby
Every effort will be made to accommodate your first choice, but it would be helpful if you could please indicate a second and third choice for each of the morning and afternoon workshops.
The charge for the day is £10 (Leeds Trinity University students and alumni: free).
Please complete the reply slip below, stating any special access requirements, and return
with a cheque made payable to Leeds Trinity University to:
Sarah Kelly: Leeds Trinity University, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD.
Tel: 01132837126
Email: s.kelly@leedstrinity.ac.uk
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