By drawing from different disciplines we hope to provide a space in which imagination and playfulness can reach their full yumminess in a way that is encouraging and supportive. Each class is facilitated using exercises from meditation practices, clowning workshops and life drawing classes. Each week will revolve around a different theme and there will be a section of writing advice to encourage your explorations.
Throughout the session, there will be multiple opportunities for you to write, with prompts to help you. To get the zoom link please email specifying whether you’d like to attend the 10am morning, or 7pm evening session.Įach session will begin with a welcome, a short period of freewriting and a grounding exercise. 20% of all monies raised will be donated to organisations platforming underrepresented voices in literature.
The cost is free, donations are welcomed but not necessary. There are online sessions each Tuesday at 10am and 7pm BST. Write Here is a supportive and cosy space where creative writing can be used as a tool for self expression and reflection. You’ll be encouraged to explore your unique flow of words and to play with words in a non-judgmental and supportive space. Dani Shapiro in Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life. Write Here is a space to loose your imagination, to find new words and worlds. It is suitable for absolute beginners as well as wizened imagineers. If you’d like to access a course before the 2022 programme begins you can find a 40 day and a 7 day course here.Write Here is a community creative writing space. The uniting thread, whether you are a published author, a writing tutor, or embarking on your first manuscript, has been a commitment to writing and to integrating writing into life.
There have also been mentees who have returned to do a second year of mentoring. Some students have come relatively fresh to writing and others have post-graduate degrees in writing or are writing lecturers. Over the last two years mentees have included those working on a debut novel, poetry collection or pamphlet and those with one or several previous publications. The experience of working with mentees this year has been hugely positive and the work produced is inspiring. This will include detailed individual feedback, with written feedback as well as Zoom calls, to support your writing project as well as group workshops and an online residential. I’ll also be opening places for new mentoring students in 2022. I’ve got lots of ideas bubbling, including opt-ins to workshops, and prompts that foccus on embodying our writing and connecting with the earth and seasons (an almanac of kith). I want to include as many writers as possible and make the community even more accessible and flexible for people to join. Kith 2022Īs this year moves into autumn, I’m beginning to plan the way ahead for Kith in 2022. We may live in dark times, but we are not overwhelmed and those in the kith community and kith mentoring groups are writers who witness to the power of words to transform all our stories.
Community storywriting series#
an accessible writing community with weekly prompts, (alternating between focusssing on writing process and on themes around the writing life structured as ‘an alphabet of kith’), a forum for sharing work and thoughts, and a series of online workshops Scrivener is exceptionally helpful for those who suffer from writer’s block.Kith Community began after the extraordinary and challenging year of 2020, as a way to bring together writers in a thoughtful and supportive space to nurture our connections and to pay deep attention to our writing processes, how we embody our writing and the ways in which we claim slow time to simply be.īuidling on previous work with writers in communites, residentials, workshops and mentoring, the programme began in 2021 with two routes: