Creative writing with Lucy Lepchani

A place in the landscape

Saturday May 12th 2012, 10am - 4.30pm
Price: £50
For aged 16 and over

Write in response to the land and landscape around this stunning venue, and to your own senses and identity.

As human culture has shaped the landscape over millennia and to this present day, so it has shaped our lifestyles, our societies, our psyches.
Immersed in the vastness and the detail of nature at this burgeoning time of year, how does it shape our poetry or prose?

The workshop will include:
• Stream of consciousness writing
• Looking at other writers styles and responses to this subject
• Practising poetry form, language work, & other creative exercises
• Group work
• Time spent alone or on the land (or in a cosy yurt)

Elements and Boundaries

Wednesday July 11th 2012, 10am - 4.30pm
Price: £50
For aged 16 and over

Close to nature, being grounded, the lay of the land; these analogies and others represent ways in which language and nature are fundamental to our attitudes or perspectives.

When elements are stable, and boundaries hold us safely, the world is good. In intensity or conflict, we must confront change.
In this beautiful place, as all nature responds to summer, what rumours can be gleaned from the elements? What wisdom awaits beyond the latched gate?

This workshop is an opportunity to allow the subconscious to speak through poetry or prose, and to make conscious connections between nature, language, and your own life.

The workshop will include:
• Discussing boundaries and elements, and their metaphors
• Stream of consciousness writing
• Creative group work – listening and looking at form.
• Looking at other writer’s responses to landscape
• Language work, editing, and other creative exercises
• Time spent writing alone, and on the land (or in a cosy yurt)

10 people max. for both workshops.

About Lucy Lepchani
Lucy Lepchani writes poetry for stage and for page, and also short fiction, and life-writing. Her work has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies.She has a working background in a broad range of arts media, youth and community, and therapeutic roles.

She currently works freelance as a visiting artist and writer in schools, theatres, and for youth and community groups; and is also employed as a creative writing and poetry tutor with the Workers Educational Association.