From words comes beauty! This rose fell onto my keyboard. CREATIVE WRITES RESEARCH PROJECT:A couple of weeks ago, I put out a call to speak to ten North London Women who were interested in creative writing. Creative Writes was born around four years ago and is now a full time business. It therefore seemed a good...
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CREATING NEW VOICES – LIMEHOUSE TOWN HALL
The main doorway at Limehouse Town Hall Hello all, I have been having a great time over the past few weeks, working one to one with Olivia Bellas, Co-Director of ScreenDeep: www.screendeep.co.uk. Olivia asked me to help her create a new audio description/script for the Victorian Limehouse Town Hall. Having spent the past two and a half...
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DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK WORKSHOP
The writers hard at work! Hello all, as I type – two men in luminous yellow jackets and hoods are outside my top floor window in what looks like a large bucket, trying to work out how to attach Christmas lights to a very tall street lamp! It is midnight and raining. They do not...
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HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY!
Play with words! Today was National Poetry Day and to celebrate, there was a themed Creative Writes workshop – Playing with Poetry & Words. It was wonderful to be back at my beloved North Bank – an inspirational Victorian house in Muswell Hill.There was one fast paced free flow exercise after another and we experimented...
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RETREAT INSPIRATION!
Let Free Flow Writing take you anywhere! Hello, I am looking forward to delivering the Creative Writes guest workshop at the Urban Writers’ Retreat this Sunday 23rd September in the City. The Retreats are fantastic and I am very honoured to be a part of it. Charlie – the brain behind the Retreats, asked me to...
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SUMMER IS….
Hand written poetry Hello!We had a great time at Chewsday yesterday – our Creative Writes workshop at the Leluu Supper Club venue in London Fields, where we are treated to a truly scrumptious dinner before the writing begins…Here is a poem written by two of the group members. We wrote a list of words associated...
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CREATIVE WRITES AND BELSIZE COMMUNITY LIBRARY LAUNCH WORKSHOPS!
As many of you will know, Creative Writes loves partnerships! So we are delighted to announce that Creative Writes and Belsize Community Library have teamed up to offer you the chance to get writing on 20th August 2012. If you have always wanted to try a Creative Writes workshop, this is your chance!There will be...
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WRITING ACROSS THE AGES
A British seaside town at night Creative Writes visited a U3A (University of the Third Age) group in Essex last week. The creative writing group have been meeting weekly for a while and invited me along to offer some new ideas and a different approach. We had a great morning of writing and laughter! There were...
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SHARING WORDS
Sharing words I was going to blog something else today but I have been thinking a great deal about conversations and their importance. A writer friend recently suggested that we email each other free writes along a particular theme that was relevant in our lives at the time. Over the weeks, it has become a...
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WRITING PARENTHOOD
Father & child On this Father’s Day, I have been thinking about the upcoming Writing Parenthood workshops which begin again on the evening of Tuesday 3rd July 2012 and will be taught by Creative Writes (organised with Writing Parents). Following the launch in March of this year – which is blogged about here – it will allow mums and...