Arvon Live Writing Day: Writing about place - The Waterfront Hall
Sunday 28th August 9.30am - 4pm
Lunch included
Tickers £70, £35 concession
Please book online
A one-day workshop and masterclass presented by the Arvon Foundation and hosted by the Town Hall, Hebden Bridge.
Is your writing – whether fiction or nonfiction – about places? Are you interested in how to use a certain location in your work? Do you want to push boundaries, both literary and geographical?
Over the course of two Masterclasses delivered live and in-person, Will Self and Amy Liptrot will share some of their own methods of exploring an area – on foot, in words – and give you a chance to try them out. Do places have their own voices? Do they carry memories? How can we as writers tune into and translate them? You will consider what makes successful place writing as well as what makes you an individual.
There will be opportunities to be inspired by the landscape of Hebden Bridge and the Calder Valley as well as places from your own experience and imagination: town or city, island or forest, kitchen or carpark, map or cloud.
The Arvon Foundation writers’ retreat at Lumb Bank, Heptonstall
The programme for the day is as follows:
9.30am – 09.55am: Register and coffee
09.55am – 10.00am: Intro to the day from Arvon host
10.00am – 12.00pm: Workshop One (with a 15-minute break)
12.00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm: Workshop Two (with a 15-minute break)
3.15pm – 4:00pm: Q&A with tutors and a surgery session for your work
To find out more about the course, and to book tickets, please visit the Arvon website