Wine and Words, with Francesca Baker.

Date: Thursday 22nd February 2018

Time: 7.30-9pm

Location: The Grand, Folkestone, The Leas, CT20 2XL Folkestone, Kent

Early bird tickets available if booked in 2017 – £12 including a glass of wine or soft drink! Full price is £14.

Time: 7.30-9pm

Location: Keppels Bar, The Grand Hotel, Folkestone.

In this workshop we’ll be gentrifying poetry, up-cycling words and recreating what we find. Taking inspiration from the gentrification of Folkestone and other seaside towns, we’ll see what happens when we apply the same to words.

Ticket price £15, including a glass of wine or a soft drink! Adults only. Pre-booking essential.

2-4pm

Smallhythe Studio

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A creative writing workshop full of tips, exercises and techniques to help you get creative, have fun, and feel good – all through the wonder of play and words.

Being playful matters. It’s something we forget as adults. It’s actually really important to us as individuals, and for our writing. One of the biggest barriers to writing is the need to get things ‘right.’ This about having fun with words.

Earlybird tickets – £10 when booked in August only.

11am

Petit Miracle Hub, First floor, West 12 Shopping Centre, Shepherd’s Bush, London, W12 8PP

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We tend to put creativity in one box, and communication in other. Play on one side, and business somewhere else. When we’re earning a living from our writing, writing for business, engaging with corporate clients, there’s something about the involvement of transactions, and well, money, that sucks the life out of words and takes away all creativity.

It doesn’t have to be this way. All communication should evoke some kind of reaction, be it educative, informative, entertainment or emotion. This can’t happen unless there’s a bit of passion behind the words. A bit of creativity. Some life. It can be so easy to stick to the same formulas and language, yet this not only doesn’t benefit the client in the long run, it makes your working life a little bit dull.

What can we learn from creative writing for business writing? How can exercises usually reserved for fiction and poetry help our business writing? At this workshop we will use creative writing techniques like poetry and storytelling to apply to a business communications context.

Part of Petit Miracle Hub, a retail and business incubation project – created by Londoners for Londoners – and a haven for aspiring entrepreneurs needing access to the retail market.

Come along to the Scout Hut on Forge Lane at 11am on Tuesday 12th September and get stuck in!

For more details see below.

Canterbury Christ Church University World Mental Health Day Writing Competition 2017

This year Canterbury Christ Church University is celebrating World Mental Health Day by raising awareness around emotional and mental health through various events and workshops being run throughout the day.

The university works to include and promote fairness and respect for all, which includes recognising the emotional and mental needs of individuals.

The University invites poems on the theme of “Magic moments” or short stories about “Working on Mental Health”.

This competition is free to enter and open to students, staff and the community in which the university works within.  We hope that this competition enables people to think about emotional health and wellbeing and looking after oneself.

Judges

Poetry: Professor Doug MacInnes, Luigi Marchini

Prose: Janet Lloyd, Michelle Crowther

Prizes will be donated by the University bookshop

Deadline

September 15th 2017

Poems: 60 lines max.

Short stories: 3500 words max.

Entries should be sent

to:

worldmentalhealthday@canterbury.ac.uk

Please read the terms and conditions before entering.