This two hour workshop will be led by The Craft House’s creative writing tutor, Alyson Faye.*
Alyson will teach you techniques and tips to start your creative writing journey, whether that is poetry, flash fiction, short stories, in longer writing, or memoir. The emphasis is on finding your writing voice and having fun.
In the workshop we will use visual and audio prompts, a selection of found objects, and short writing exercises, including how to enrich our writing by utilising the Five Senses. We will talk about methods on how to find your fictional characters, tips on choosing a point of view, and the use of personal memories.
There will be an opportunity to read and share your work as well as work in pairs, and receive, if wished, some tutorial feedback in the session.
There will be takeaway print outs full of top tips and future pathways to help to keep you writing, also lists of sites and magazines you can reference and some discussion of basic editing pointers.
Price is £25 per person.
*Alyson is an Amazon best-selling author, and editor, who has experience running an indie press. Her fiction and poetry, has been published in many anthologies and magazines. Her work has won and been short-listed in a number of competitions.
A full audio dramatisation of her Gothic ghost story, Night of the Rider, can be downloaded at :- https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/6-night-of-the-rider/id1693204342?i=1000622023589
She is interviewed over at Kandisha Press at:- https://kandishapress.com/2024/03/30/in-the-library-with-alyson-faye
For examples of her poetry go to:- https://wordsforthewild.co.uk/rooks-flight-by-alyson-faye
and https://www.sylviamagazine.com/author/alyson-faye
Check out her listings over at:-
Amazon page :- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alyson-Faye/e/B01NBYSLT
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=alyson+faye&qid=UwaBLPcYXq
