Join award-winning novelist Kim Sherwood for a supportive workshop on creating and conveying characters. We will experiment with tools for developing your characters, getting them across to the reader, and using them to generate plot. This interactive workshop will be suitable for emerging and established writers. Kim Sherwood’s debut novel Testament was long-listed for the […]
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will develop the perfect superhero and use different elements of story plotting while building their story. We’ll discuss all the important questions such as: What makes your superhero unique? What are their special powers? Do they have a dual identity? Who is their antagonist? And then there will be […]
These workshops are aimed at Creative Businesses. Whether you are an artist, maker or musician these are practical, digital marketing workshops, to help you grow your business.Everyone is talking about why you should be blogging, and how it can help build your business, but what about those of you who have no idea how to […]
About Join acclaimed Outdoor Writer Natasha Carthew on a guided exploration of our outdoor natural environment, followed by a creative writing session. This workshop is for all the family and includes activities to stimulate observation and creativity whilst exploring the Exeter Quay area to produce a piece of creative writing inspired by our outdoor natural […]
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will focus on imitating the writing style of great authors such as Dickens, Austen and Steinbeck. We’ll look at what makes these writer’s style so amazing, and then write our own short stories in the style of one of them! This workshop is for 11-15 year olds.
POETRY & THE SPOKEN WORD RENAISSANCE Pete (the Temp) Bearder is a loop station artist, comic and spoken word poet whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, World Service and Newsnight. He is a former UK National Poetry Slam Champion, has toured Europe and performed at over 30 festivals. Pete’s current tour launches […]
Once upon a time at RAMM: creative writing workshop for teens Tue 22 Oct 10.30am to 1.30pm £30From galactic adventures to heart-warming romance, from medieval derring-do to side-splitting comedy, does your imagination burst with story ideas just itching to scrawl their way onto paper? Join bestselling author Jenny Kane as she guides you through building […]
Meet The Book Keepers – Pippy and Lizzibella – tellers of tantalising tales and guardians of the intriguingly ingenious StoryGenerator. These intrepid explorers have been travelling the world, chasing clues and bright ideas, hunting for snippets of suspense and stealthily following unusual twists in the plot. Join them to see what secrets the StoryGenerator holds, […]
Join author Jenny Kane for 90 minutes of creative fun. Do you want to go to the Moon, but you haven’t got a rocket? Use your imagination to invent a way to get to travel into Space. Write a story or draw pictures showing what adventures you have when you get there! Ages 6-11. Children […]
These poetry editing seminars are open to anyone looking to develop individual poems and participate in a high level of group critiquing. We will be aiming for honesty, and a commitment to close study and scrutiny to support and help editing drafts of work-in-progress poems for personal development, and to encourage performance, submission or publication. […]