Get Writing! A one-day workshop to kickstart your creative writing journey

If you have ever wanted to try your hand at creative writing then this is the workshop for you!

Feel you have a poem, a short story, memoir or novel inside you but don’t know where to start?

Have you written in the past but seem to have lost your creative flow?

Would you like to try your hand at some interesting and innovative creative writing prompts in a safe and supportive learning environment?

This one-day Saturday workshop assumes no previous knowledge or experience of any form of creative writing and with the guidance of an experienced writer and workshop facilitator, you will be able to try a range of different and accessible writing prompts and activities to kickstart your creativity.

This workshop would also be of interest and value to more experienced writers who may have mislaid their creative mojo! We will be trying our hands at poetry, memoir and reminiscence and the super-short story.

Workshop plan:

–          Introductions and ice-breaker activity

–          What’s getting in the way of us writing – understanding and combatting our creative blocks

–          Writing prompt 1 – Free writing – writing without our internal editor

–          Writing prompt 2 – using our senses to make a piece of writing

–          Sharing our work and feedback

–          Writing prompt 3 – using an existing piece of writing to inspire our own work

–          Techniques to develop good writing practises

–          Writing prompt 4 – using tangible objects as a source of memoir writing

–          Writing prompt 5 – the micro story – writing a 100-word short story

–          Writing prompt 6 – the list poem

–          Setting our personal writing goals and possibly finding ourselves a writing buddy

–          Sharing anything we’ve written today

Tutor Cathi Rae is a widely published poet, spoken word artist, multiple poetry slam winner and workshop facilitator. Her work has appeared in journals, online magazines, poetry anthologies and art exhibitions. Cathi has performed throughout the UK at poetry events, festivals and arts events, and has been described as a spoken word icon! She has an MA in Creative Writing and PhD in Poetry from the University of Leicester.

Participants must be aged 18+.

This one-day workshop runs on Saturday 14 June, starting at 10.30am and ending at 4.30pm.

Our café will be open or you are welcome to bring your own refreshments. There will be a short break for lunch.

Please ensure that you agree to our updated Terms & Conditions before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.

We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome – just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you'd like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email arts-centre@le.ac.uk, pop in or call 0116 252 2455, open 7 days a week.

We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.

Free parking for all customers is available after 5pm on weekdays and all day at weekends in the University of Leicester car park next door to Attenborough Arts Centre on Lancaster Road. The closest public car park

for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us (near De Montfort Hall).