Writing as Ritual Workshop TOMORROW
and a sneak peek at upcoming workshops
Join me at the first writing workshop of the year, 28th of January, 2024. 7pm GMT £25, tickets via Eventbrite
In this two hour workshop we will discuss ways to face the blank page, modes of creating a writing ritual for yourself and as well as warding your practice in the face of upheaval and uncertainty.
We'll find ways to carve out time and space to write as well as reconnecting with our own vision and purpose.
I'll share practical tips for forming or renewing a regular writing practice.
Together we'll examine our processes, sharing discoveries and challenges as a group as well as our hopes and plans for writing in the new year.
There will be prompts and inspiration for future work.
Participants will bring a stone, a light, and a plant. (Or tailor this to your practice—something to ground you, something to bring presence and something for growth and rootedness)
I keep workshop number small to insure a lot of personal attention and collaborative atmosphere.
Paid subscribers to my Substack receive a 20%discount code! (Scroll down—code under the cut below)
I’ll be offering many other workshops in 2024!
I bring decades of experience teaching writing to my online workshops. I've taught at the University of California and colleges in the US, delivered community writing workshops as well as master classes for the Taibhsear Collective.
Upcoming Workshops:
Arcane Memoir
A workshop exploring the story of Tarot as a prompt and informant to our writing process and our personal narrative.
Reclaiming our monsters
Part game, part writing dare—we’ll explore the monstrous through an intimate, personal perspective. We’ll embrace the persona of the outsider, the not-quite-human, using subversive world-building, and writing through the eyes of the cursed, the spellbound, the exiled.
Second Sight
A hands-on, how-to workshop rewriting drafts. Revision is a way of seeing and it is the secret to powerful writing. In this workshop we will look at techniques for re-visioning-- getting a second look at your first drafts and developing all your raw wildings into powerful writing that embodies all your intentions. Date and Time TBA
Ghost missives
In this two hour workshop we will look at point of view and persona in narrative nonfiction. Date and Time TBA
Writing Yourself Home
In this master class we will explore rendering a sense of place in writing. Exercises will centre on facets of setting informed by notions of the Scottish diaspora and an anti-colonial re-enchantment of land, place, and home. Date and Time TBA
I got so much from the workshops. The whole thing about recognising your rhythms completely revolutionised my practice! I'm on fire!
Claire Gorman
