Arvon Live Writing Day: Poetry, Short Story and Hybrid - The Waterfront Hall
Sunday 3rd March 2024
Tickets £52.50 - £85
Please book online
10am - 4pm
What makes a story or a poem? When does a poem become a story? Is there a difference between prose poetry and flash fiction, and does it matter? What is hybrid writing? Join award-winning writers, Tania Hershman and Rachel Bower, for a day immersed in the distilled worlds of poetry, short stories and hybrid writing.
In the morning workshop with Rachel Bower, you’ll experiment with different poetic and narrative techniques, and explore the ways that borrowing and play can light up your work. In the afternoon workshop with Tania Hershman, you’ll delve into the exciting and playful world of hybrid writing. Here, “hybrid” means possibility, potential, mixing it up, collision, and combination.
Whether you’re just starting out, or whether you want to experiment with new techniques and forms to push your writing to a new level, this Live Writing Day will give you the chance to experiment with language in new ways in a warm and supportive environment.
Tania Hershman’s second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022 and her debut novel, Go On, a hybrid ‘fictional memoir-in-collage’, by Broken Sleep Books in Nov 2022. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). Her poetry pamphlet, How High Did She Fly, was joint winner of Live Canon’s 2019 Poetry Pamphlet Competition, and her hybrid particle-physics-inspired book and what if we were all allowed to disappear was published by Guillemot Press in March 2020. Tania is also the author of a poetry collection, a poetry chapbook and three short story and flash fiction collections, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics and is working on a hybrid pamphlet inspired by the collision of neuroscience and Star Trek.
Rachel Bower is a poet and fiction writer based in Sheffield. She is the author of two poetry collections and a non-fiction book on literary letters. Rachel’s poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The London Magazine, The White Review, Magma and Stand. Rachel won The London Magazine‘s Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020. Her work is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.
The programme for the day is as follows:
9.30-9.55 Arrivals from 9.30am onwards, tea and coffee
10.00-12.30 Workshop One (including Q & A)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-16.00 Workshop Two (including Q & A)
16.00 Ends
To find out more about the course, and to book tickets, please visit the Arvon website