Online Workshops
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Creative Writing Online Workshops
'A brilliant environment for learning and sharing’
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I have been running regular Bath and Bristol based writing workshops for many years. Since the pandemic, I mainly run workshops online. This enables participants to join from anywhere in the world, from the comfort of their own writing space. The group meets on Zoom, on a Saturday morning.
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I'm running four workshops between September and December 2024, see below.
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All workshops are run by me, Clare Reddaway, founder of A Word In Your Ear. I am an experienced facilitator, award-winning short story writer and playwright. You can read more about my work here and read testimonials from my workshop participants here.
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All workshops run from 10.00-12.30 on Saturday mornings.
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The workshops cost £12 for each session, except for the editing workshop on November 16th when we will be joined by guest tutor Stephanie Boxall. This workshops is £14.
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You are welcome to book individual workshops via Eventbrite (see links below).
If you’d like to block book the four scheduled zoom workshops from September-December for £50 you can escape the Eventbrite fee by booking direct with me. Please get in touch for bank details.
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New writing workshops scheduled for Autumn 2024
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Let's Talk Stories is back! Autumn dates and information here!
Zoom Workshops
7th September, 2024: Sparks
Is that piece of paper blank? Is that cursor winking malevolently at you from the top of your empty screen? Could you – just whisper it! – have a spot of writers’ block? Then this is the workshop for you! Come and kickstart your writing this autumn. We’ll have plenty of writing prompts – pictures, sounds, words, objects – to help you find the story that has been itching to spring onto your page. Book onto this workshop to give you some great ideas to get those stories flowing again.
19th October, 2024: Life Writing 2
​Earlier this year I ran a life writing workshop. The writers who came along found themselves tapping into experiences they had forgotten and memories which were skittering at the edge of their consciousness. There was a lot of enthusiasm for delving deeper into the life writing genre – so in this workshop we’ll do just that. Lots of time for writing, lots of space for sharing (without any pressure!).
This is a standalone workshop – you don’t need to have been to the first one to find this one useful.
16th November, 2024: Painless Self-Editing
With Stephanie Boxall
Editing your own work can be painful and difficult – who, after all, wants to ‘murder their darlings’?! Well, this workshop aims to take the sting out of the process. In it you will learn some tricks of the trade – including what editors like and don’t like – and find out how to make a big difference with small changes. There will also be an opportunity to edit a piece of your own copy and get feedback.
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Every now and again I invite a specialist to tutor our workshops, someone who can bring their own unique perspective to the skills in question. For this workshop I am delighted to welcome the brilliant Stephanie Boxall, who will bring a wealth of experience to the challenges of editing.
TUTOR BIO
Stephanie Boxall is a freelance journalist with a background in book-editing and an MA in Creative Writing. She has spent most of her journalism career on the subs’ desks of national magazines and newspaper supplements and has also worked as a reporter and a feature writer, so she knows what life is like on ‘both sides of the desk’.
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Please note: this workshop costs £14.00.​
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7th December 2024: Get Your Characters Talking
One of the biggest challenges for writers of prose is creating dialogue. Dialogue is one of the ways to lift your fiction to a new, vivid level and to bring your characters to life, yet many writer shy away from it, lacking confidence and feeling uncomfortable with direct speech. In this workshop we will hone our listening and voice skills and find some tips and techniques to help your characters speak freely.