'What You Saying' is a brand new creative writing development programme 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, this morning workshop could be for you!
Over two consecutive mornings during half term at Stroud Valleys Artspace, we are inviting young writers 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.
Participants will also be invited to contribute feedback that will help us to design longer, 5 day programmes to be held in August.
Dates
The workshop will run from 10am to 1pm at SVA.
30th May, 10am - 1pm - this workshop is for age range 11 to 16
31st May, 10am - 1pm - this workshop is for age range 17 to 24
Venue
Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Cost
As an introductory offer, these workshops cost £5 each per participant
About the tutor
Alun Hughes is a poet and singer living in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In 2020, he received a MA Creative Writing with Distinction from Bath Spa University. 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. Alun started working on land in 2000 as a farmhand on an organic farm just north of Lewes, Sussex. Since then, he has worked as a woodsman, yurt maker, hedge layer, teacher of woodland management and green woodwork. In 2008, he became involved in designing and facilitating courses in nature based practice and wilderness work. With a commitment to helping young people grow into their potential, Alun has worked as a tutor at Ruskin Mill College and at The Grove home schooling project in Stroud.
Alun’s 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 out now on the Irregular Patterns label.
