Curative Writing
The Story, A Very Brief HistoryA frolic through 5,000 years of story, from paganism and the Greeks to twenty-first century media. Thursday, 21 March, 7pm
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22 - 29 July 2023 Curative Writing 12 - 19 August 2023 Starting Your Novel Kylie is running two courses. The first, Curative Writing, is a series of unique practices designed to take us beneath the noisy mind to that quiet, endlessly creative place within, that is always available to us: we need only to know the way there. Writing of any kind is a portal to the inner, which can be neglected in our complex, messy, and richly layered lives. Writers have always been drawn to this place of wonder within: where stories are made; where our own voice of wisdom can be heard with absolute clarity. The second course, Starting Your Novel is open to novices with a secret passion for writing or writers who already have a book under their belt. What's included? Kylie's courses are held at the Skyros Centre on Skyros island in Greece and is part of a wide range of courses and activities available. The holiday includes half board, twin shared accommodation in the village. Single upgrades are available. Chat through the website, skyros.com or email holidays@skyros.com to discuss your requirements. |
Voice is each individual writer’s most powerful tool for channelling ideas. Writing with a clear voice can transform a work into one that affects readers from a deeper place, from beyond the words themselves.
Through instruction, discussion and practical application, Freeing Your Voice will guide you through techniques for both fiction and non-fiction, designed to connect with your ‘inner’ writing-self, whilst helping you identify the themes and stories that have meaning to you. This course will help you recognise the difference between the noisy, judgemental chitter-chatter of the mind, and the quieter, wiser voice of your inner writer.
By the end of the four-week course, you will have the beginnings of a piece of writing, either fiction or non-fiction, that reflects your own voice, and have the tools to breathe new life into existing writing projects.
Course outline
• Two assignments, including reading material, discussion prompts and writing exercises
• Peer feedback on your first assignment
• Detailed written feedback from the course tutor on your final assignment
• A Q+A session with Kylie Fitzpatrick
• An online writing community, lasting beyond the end of the course
For more details and booking go to London Lit Lab.
Through instruction, discussion and practical application, Freeing Your Voice will guide you through techniques for both fiction and non-fiction, designed to connect with your ‘inner’ writing-self, whilst helping you identify the themes and stories that have meaning to you. This course will help you recognise the difference between the noisy, judgemental chitter-chatter of the mind, and the quieter, wiser voice of your inner writer.
By the end of the four-week course, you will have the beginnings of a piece of writing, either fiction or non-fiction, that reflects your own voice, and have the tools to breathe new life into existing writing projects.
Course outline
• Two assignments, including reading material, discussion prompts and writing exercises
• Peer feedback on your first assignment
• Detailed written feedback from the course tutor on your final assignment
• A Q+A session with Kylie Fitzpatrick
• An online writing community, lasting beyond the end of the course
For more details and booking go to London Lit Lab.
The Skyros Centre, Greece
Saturday 4 - 11 Jun 2022 Curative Writing is a series of unique practices designed to take us beneath the noisy mind to that quiet, endlessly creative place within that is always available to us: we need only to know the way there. Writing of any kind is a portal to the inner, which can be neglected in our complex, messy, and richly layered lives. Writers have always been drawn to this place of wonder within: where stories are made; where our own voice of wisdom can be heard with absolute clarity. Neuroscience is only now catching up with what writers and thinkers have always known; that writing is good for us: it calms the anxious mind, it finds meaning when a personal or global narrative might seem senseless, it restores the balance of inner and outer. What's included? Kylie's course is held at the Skyros Centre on Skyros island in Greece and is part of a wide range of courses and activities available. The holiday includes half board, twin shared accommodation in the village. Single upgrades are available. Chat through the website, skyros.com or email holidays@skyros.com to discuss your requirements. |
Write yourself a brighter future
Join our online event with Dr Kylie Fitzpatrick We’re hosting a wonderful one-hour online writing event with novelist Kylie Fitzpatrick, bestselling historical fiction author, lecturer, and researcher. She'll be teaching us a series of unique writing practices designed to take us beneath the noisy mind to the quiet. 6th April @ 8:00 PM GMT.
The Hero's Journey
1st September 2021 — 7:00pm to 8:30pm — Online
The Hero’s Journey is the writer’s map, providing all that is vital to brilliant, page-turning storytelling in a few key milestones. In this evening masterclass, author, editor and academic Kylie Fitzpatrick uses contemporary examples to highlight the patterns that define some of our greatest stories, and encourages you to assess which of these apply to your own writing.
This is an opportunity to use the Hero’s Journey as a check-list for your own work, and a means of developing a rescue plan if you’ve been unable to put your finger on why your narrative doesn’t quite work. You’ll be encouraged to ask key questions of your heroines and heroes, as well as their quests. What makes them leave the familiarity of their safe, ordinary life and go into their version of the unknown? And does your reader want to go along as your plot unfolds?
This is a session open to writers of all genres and experience. The six key stages of the Hero’s Journey are about character – and therefore story – progression, so whether the map of your protagonist leads to the ends of the earth or just to the bottom of the garden, the same guidance applies. And all in the hope of searching for the same outcome: to become an author of a journey that will grip readers from first page to last.
This is an opportunity to use the Hero’s Journey as a check-list for your own work, and a means of developing a rescue plan if you’ve been unable to put your finger on why your narrative doesn’t quite work. You’ll be encouraged to ask key questions of your heroines and heroes, as well as their quests. What makes them leave the familiarity of their safe, ordinary life and go into their version of the unknown? And does your reader want to go along as your plot unfolds?
This is a session open to writers of all genres and experience. The six key stages of the Hero’s Journey are about character – and therefore story – progression, so whether the map of your protagonist leads to the ends of the earth or just to the bottom of the garden, the same guidance applies. And all in the hope of searching for the same outcome: to become an author of a journey that will grip readers from first page to last.
Booking & payment
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
Event materials will be made available to attendees for a time-limited period after the event at the author's discretion.
Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services.
Contact W&A Admin on writersandartists@bloomsbury.com so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
Event materials will be made available to attendees for a time-limited period after the event at the author's discretion.
Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services.
Contact W&A Admin on writersandartists@bloomsbury.com so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
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