Posts tagged workshop
9 October: W/Shop:Helen Cross – Writing Short Stories
WORKSHOP
Saturday 9 October
South Birmingham College, High Street Deritend, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SU
10am – 12.30pm
Helen Cross: Writing Short Stories
This workshop explores where to find stories, how to look at what you find, and how to carve these mysteries into story shape.
Helen’s stories have appeared in various magazines, anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her latest novel is Spilt Milk, Black Coffee (Bloomsbury 2010).
Tickets: £23 (£17)
Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

9 October: W/Shop: Myra Connell – Dreams & Poetry
WORKSHOP
Saturday 9 October
South Birmingham College, High Street Deritend, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SU
10am – 12.30pm
Myra Connell: Dreams and Poetry
Are our dreams a source for poems? Can the poems we write enrich our understanding of our dreams?
We will explore the intriguing connections between dreams and poems. You are invited to bring a dream that you would like to write.
Myra Connell’s second pamphlet of poems, From the Boat, is published by Nine Arches Press.
Tickets: £23 (£17)
Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

9 October: W/Shop: Will Buckingham – Editing
WORKSHOP
Saturday 9 October
South Birmingham College, High Street Deritend, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SU
10am – 12.30pm
Will Buckingham: Editing
Kerouac wrote On the Road in a creative frenzy on a single roll of paper. What they don’t tell you is that he then edited it, word by word. It is not the stuff of legend, but legendary works are built upon careful editing. This workshop will explore how to hone and perfect your work.
Will Buckingham is a novelist, academic and philosopher. His most recent book is Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of Stories.
Tickets: £23 (£17)
Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

9 October: W/Shop: Lynn Davies – Writing For TV
WORKSHOP
Saturday 9 October
South Birmingham College, High Street Deritend, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SU
10am -12.30pm
Lynn Davies: Writing for TV
In Association with Script
Newcomers and old hands alike will find this a stimulating whistle-stop tour of the skills and industry techniques involved in crafting a script for TV or cinema. Lynn Davies won a Writers’ Guild Award for his work on BBC’s ‘Between the Lines’. He teaches screenwriting, and runs his own theatre and media production company, Kayelle Productions Ltd.
Tickets: £30 (£25)
(EXTRA: one to one afternoon surgery on your own ideas £10, £7 – five slots available to participants of this workshop only – mention at time of booking)
Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

9 October: W/Shop: Rebbecca Hemmings- Performing Your Writing
WORKSHOP
Saturday 9 October
South Birmingham College, High Street Deritend, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SU
10.30am – 3pm
Rebbecca Hemmings: Performing Your Writing
Designed for novice writer/performers as well as those needing a refresher on performance techniques, this workshop will be relaxed, informative, fun and challenging. There will be opportunity to vocalise text and try various ways of delivering it, building confidence towards a performance of your own work at the end of the day.
Rebbecca Hemmings is a freelance theatre practitioner and Director of Soliloquy Theatre Company.
Tickets: £32 (£28)
Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

