'What You Saying' is a brand new creative writing development opportunity for young people in Stroud and surrounding areas.
Are you a young person? Do you like making stuff up - stories, poems, jokes, scripts? If you’re interested in playing around with developing your writing, these morning workshops could be for you!
Over two consecutive mornings during the Easter Holidays at Trinity Rooms in Stroud, we are inviting young writers aged 11-16 of any level and interested in any genre to be part of a co-creative space where you can develop your creative writing in a peer group.
Creative writing games and exercises covering storytelling to poetry and spoken word will be on offer. Absolutely no previous experience is necessary.
So, if you or someone you know would like to explore their writing potential, from fiction and storytelling to poetry and spoken word, we'd love to hear from you.
Dates: Thursday 17 April 2025 09:30 -12:30
Wednesday 23 April 2025 10:00-13:00
Venue: Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2HZ
Cost: £15 for one session or £25 for both.
Tutor: Alun Hughes.
Alun Hughes
Alun Hughes is a poet and non fiction writer living in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In 2021, he was a digital writer in residence with Dialect at the Cotswold Water Park and won third prize in the Troubadour International Poetry Competition. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the Laurie Lee Prize. His poetry pamphlet Down the Heavens, is published by Yew Tree Press. Somewhere Somewhere, an album of nine poems from the collection to original soundtracks, made with the band Lensmen, is available at lensmen.bandcamp.com. His work has been published by Ambient Receiver, Amplify Stroud, Steel Jackdaw and as Salmon Paths on Substack. He is currently working on his next collections, making poetry films and developing and organising community storytelling events and creative writing workshops.
His writing is based in nature-based practice and indigenous perspectives.
https://alunhughes.substack.com / Instagram @alunowl