Gaia Holmes Workshop: The Taste of the Town

Join Gaia Holmes for an afternoon workshop as part of The Book Corner's and The Grayston Unity's TOWN Festival.

Are there places that live inside you, places you can’t forget, places you feel are ‘home’? In this writing workshop with local writer, Gaia Holmes, we will use the hills, skies, streets and follies of Halifax as the inspiration for our own writing about place.

Gaia Holmes is the author of 3 poetry collections, Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed, Lifting The Piano With One Hand and Where The Road Runs out (Comma Press). She has been a gallery attendant, a cleaner, a lecturer, a lollypop lady and a busker and has lived in churches, caves, deserted beach houses, tall terraces and caravans. Now she is a creative writing tutor and pet/house sitter and lives in Halifax in a tiny flat above the tree line on the top floor of a ramshackle Georgian mansion that Dorothy and William Wordsworth used to visit. Her debut collection of short stories, He Used To Do Dangerous Things, was published in summer 2024.