Join Liskeard Library writer in residence Nell Carroll Turner for a series of fun and practical workshops that nurture and explore creative writing practice via various creative themes.
All workshops are for 18yrs+
Workshop 1 - Creative Writing and Nature
Saturday 17th May 10.30 - 1pm
A fun and practical workshop about how nature can spark and inform creative writing through observation, personal reflection and connection to the natural world.
This workshop will include a short reading by Brigit Strawbridge Howard from her book ‘Dancing with Bees: a return to nature’.
(Sunday Times Best Nature Writing Books 2020; Shortlist 2020 Wainwright Prize).
Workshop 2 - Stories from the Lost and Found
Saturday 31st May 10.30 - 1pm
A fun and practical creative writing workshop about finding inspiration in objects and words from another moment in time: exploring theme, dialogue and use of language.
Workshop 3 - Writing Summer
Saturday 7th June 10.30 - 1pm
A fun and practical creative writing workshop exploring how seasonal sounds, images and memories can be a rich source for stories.
About Your Writer in Residence
Nell Carroll Turner is a writer and performer who lives near Liskeard. She is incredibly excited about being Liskeard Library’s Writer in Residence this year.
Nell is looking forward to facilitating workshops and events and celebrating writing in South East Cornwall.
Nell plays with language and dialogue and her writing is creative, poetic, absurd and often a bit wild. She particularly enjoys writing theatre scripts and short stories. Themes include diversity, belonging and nature with language play at the core. She loves collecting peoples’ stories, and writing tales based on fact but which swim wildly in the style of magic realism. In addition to writing original works, Nell also translates from French and enjoys the creativity of transposing French verses and poetry to make them accessible and relevant.
She is currently translating an autobiography of a French writer and poet. Nell has over 25 years’ teaching experience and holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and an MA in Literary Translation. She is passionate about teaching, having taught creative writing and academic writing at university level. Nell’s stories and plays have been performed in various locations, including theatres, at the Edinburgh Fringe and in a Cattle Market.
Her latest play was shortlisted by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of 37 Plays, a national playwriting project to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Folio.
