What’s on at RuptureXIBIT?
Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson
Writing our journeys and transformations.
In this generative, explorative, creative writing workshop, we will play with ways of reimagining some of the tropes of myth, in particular magical transformations and the hero’s journey. We will use these ideas to explore ways of expressing our more ‘everyday’ transformations, and the journeys, physical and psychological, that we make.
We will look at contemporary and historical texts that draw on mythologies, including Fiona Benson’s poetry in Vertigo and Ghost and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Through a range of readings and short writing exercises, we will explore the ways in which we might turn to the non-human (animals, ghosts, gods…) to express our own very human experiences.
Suitable for all levels, no creative writing experience necessary
4pm-6pm!
The Opening Chapter: A Workshop For Writers with Dr James Miller
What makes an opening chapter work? How do you grab and hold a reader’s attention? What is the balance between show and tell, between action and reflection, exposition and omission? Should a novel start ‘at the beginning’ or in the ‘middle’ or even at ‘the end’? What are the pros and cons of different points of view and different tenses?
This is a workshop for aspiring and more established writers who are struggling to start their novel. 3-5pm £10
RuptureXIBIT Creative Writing: Autumn One Day Intensive
‘Interwoven’
Develop your creative writing practice, or try something new, with Rupture’s creative writing autumn intensive.
This full-day event will be hosted by Rupture’s Dr Anna Johnson and will also feature a workshop and talk by special guest, poet and lecturer Emma Filtness and a short explorative workshop with writer in residence Ashleigh Sean.
10am-4pm £35.00 or £25 for students.
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