Women’s Writing Week
A week to make your writing come to life. We will explore starting points, imagery and structure and ways of bringing precision and vividness to your language whether you are working on fiction or poetry. The group will be limited to six women to allow each writer two full hour mentoring sessions during the week. There will also be morning workshops, opportunities to workshop each others’ work and to share work in progress as well as time to write and relax.
Where? In a beautiful converted barn just outside Hebden Bridge. There are two twin and two single rooms, plenty of bathrooms including a jacuzzi bath, large kitchen, living room plus an extra dining room and a TV room. The area is stunning with walks all around, Hebden Bridge just a mile away and a pub and shop ten minutes walk away.
When? November 21st – 28th—a winter writing break before the Christmas rush.
How much? There’s a sliding scale depending on room, allocated on first come first served basis. The large single with en suite is £520; the single with en suite is £500 and the two twins with shared bathroom are £460 per person. The price includes food (we will share the cooking for the week using easy recipes and wonderful vegetarian ingredients); accommodation and all tuition.
The group? This is an all-women course with only six places available to maximise contact time and attention to individual work—places are expected to go quickly so book soon.
Booking? Send a non-refundable deposit of £100 to ‘Jan Fortune-Wood’ with the downloadable booking form (or email Jan for a the form as an attachment). The Balance is due by October 10th.
Jan Fortune-Wood has taught creative writing for the Open College of Art, The Writer’s House, the Arvon Foundation (tutoring both adults and teenagers), Women on Tour writing courses in Spain and does mentoring work as part of the co-operative, Triskele Writes. Jan is a qualified teacher and member of the National Association of Writers in Education and Academi’s Writers on Tour scheme. Her books include novels , A Good Life, Dear Ceridwen and The Standing Ground and poetry, Particles of Life and Stale Bread and Miracles, a prose poetry collection which she recently performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. She is currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ Schrödinger and a novel that ranges across three generations and two continents exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, I’m Still Here.