Free Creative Writing Workshops for Adults, as part of the Raising Voices Project.
Looking to try something creative this summer? centre:mk is delighted to host a series of free creative writing workshops for adults, organised by MK Lit Fest as part of the Raising Voices Project.
Led by acclaimed writers, each workshop offers a friendly, hands-on opportunity to explore poetry, storytelling, or creative non-fiction. All inspired by the places we live, walk through, and remember.
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FREE NON-FICTION WORKSHOP
WRITING THE CITY WITH JOHN GRINDROD
Thursday 7 August | 8 Sunset Walk | 6 - 8pm
Tickets: Free. Places strictly limited
Do you enjoy observing and writing about places – be they your everyday surroundings or somewhere new and exciting? But could you do with some advice, structure and a bit of time to really concentrate on seeing what you can really do?
Join Milton Keynes-based writer John Grindrod for an inspiring, fun and productive creative non-fiction workshop.
(16+ years old)
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FREE SHORT STORY WORKSHOP
THE CITY OF STORIES WITH WILL BURNS
Wednesday 13 August | 8 Sunset Walk | 6 - 8pm
Tickets: Free. Places strictly limited
Join local author Will Burns for a place-based creative writing workshop where you’ll look at the technique and function of place in crafting fiction. Using our intimate relationship with the physical environment surrounding us, and the interaction of geography, memory and emotion, this workshop will provide a framework and a space for writing new work with Milton Keynes and its environs at its heart.
(16+ years old)
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FREE POETRY WORKSHOP
WRITING POETRY ABOUT PLACE WITH HELEN BOWELL
Tuesday 19 August | 8 Sunset Walk | 6 - 8pm
Tickets: Free. Places strictly limited
In this free two-hour workshop, poet Helen Bowell will lead you through a number of writing activities to help you write poems about places in Milton Keynes. You’ll think about the distant and not-so-distant histories of the places you walk past every day, consider your place in the city, and find poetry in the most unexpected places.
(16+ years old)
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