Inspired By
with Tawnya Selene Renelle
Full Price: £300 or £30/session
Concession Rate: £150 or £15/session
2 Free Bursary Spaces (with application)
Starts Thursday September 14th
Thursdays 6-8pm (GMT) via Zoom
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This weekly series with Tawnya Selene Renelle will run from September 14th to December 5th. Please note that there will be a 2 week break with no workshops on October 26th and November 2nd while Tawnya attends an interdisciplinary artist residency.
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In each workshop we will turn to different themes and authors to inspire and invigorate our creative writing practice. The broad and open nature of this series means it is suited to writers and artistic practitioners of any genre or medium.
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Important things of note for this series:
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You will have access to a variety of materials through an online portal
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You won't be asked to share any of your writing
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You can sign up for all or individual weeks
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The series will culminate an optional open mic
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Week 1: September 14th Geography
Mapping, place, location, architecture
Authors include: Rebecca Solnit, Jean Barrie Borich
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Week 2: September 21st Food
Fridges, eating, restaurants, comfort, cooking
Authors include: Nina Miyang Powels and Gertrude Stein
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Week 3: September 28th Julietta Singh
No Archive Will Restore You, The Breaks, Unthinking Mastery
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Week 4: October 5th Audre Lorde
The Cancer Journals, Sister Outsider, and Zami
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Week 5: October 12th Divination
Tarot, sutras, astrology
Authors include: Dodie Bellamy and Alice Tarbuck
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Week 6: October 19th Nature
Plants, gardens, panpsychism, woods, rivers
Authors include: Derek Jarman, Rebecca Tamas, Dorothy Wordsworth
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No Sessions October 26th or November 2nd
Week 7: November 9th Eileen Myles
Cool For You, Chelsea Girls, Inferno, Sorry Tree
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Week 8: November 16th Sound
Music, listening, echo, silence
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Week 9: November 23rd Bernadette Mayer
The Desire of Mothers, Memory, Sonnets, Milkweed Smithereens
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Week 10: November 30th Bhanu Kapil
Humanimal, Schizophrene, Incubation: A Space for Monsters
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Open Mic: December 7th
Come along and share you writing
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