Would you like to explore ways of walking to inspire your creativity, connect with your senses and create a deeper understanding of place? The Walkshop explores a range of approaches to walking, imagining and interpreting your surroundings, linking personal memories and associations with landscape, whilst introducing new ways to capture your impressions.
Through a combination of discussion, walking and writing activities, you will focus on links between walking and writing, and our relationship to place. Participants will have the opportunity to try out different approaches, and gather material through a local walk (approx. 1.5 hours). Working with material from the walks, the group will experiment with ways to write about their encounters.
The Walkshop is suitable for writers, (both beginners and practising writers) of fiction, non- fiction, memoirs/life-writing, looking for inspiration, or ways to develop their writing.
By the end of the Walkshop, participants will have tested a variety of walking approaches to inspire their writing, and will have a clear understanding of how setting and place are fundamental to good writing. Walking can be flexible to all abilities. The group will stop for lunch at the Rye Bakery in Whittox Lane.
Date: 17 March 2018, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Black Swan Arts, 2 Bridge Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1BB
Cost: £10 (Please note, the Write Place in Black Swan Arts can only be accessed via stairs. If you are unsure whether it’s for you, please give Christina a call: 07738 763 161.)
To book: email:
writethemap@gmail.com