Location: Wooler Library, The Cheviot Centre, 12 Padgepool Pl, Wooler NE71 6BL

Time: 10.30am – 12pm, Tuesdays

Date: 12 September 2023 - 17 October 2023

Join author Caro Giles for a series of workshops on life writing. Caro will help you to develop a writing practice using whatever is around you as inspiration. Whether you want to explore memoir, family history or the world around you, these workshops will help you to explore new creative ideas and build your confidence to ensure you can get your words onto the page.

A limited number of free tickets are available to people for whom the cost is prohibitive. Please contact Margot Miltenberger margotmiltenberger@newwritingnorth.com.

Are you a resident of Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland?

This project is supported by funding from North of Tyne Combined Authority. Because of this, please note that we are prioritising residents of Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland. You can use the council website to check if your postcode is in one of these councils: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council.

*Update* - Ticket sales are now open for those outside North of Tyne. You do not have to be a resident of Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland to apply.

Tickets cost £35. A limited number of free tickets are available to people for whom this is prohibitive. Please contact Margot Miltenberger margotmiltenberger@newwritingnorth.com.

About the workshop facilitator:

Caro Giles is a writer living in Northumberland. She worked for eight years as an actor-musician, and with an arts collective in London. In 2021, Caro won the inaugural BBC Countryfile New Nature Writer of the Year competition. Her first book, Twelve Moons, a memoir about mothering in the middle of nowhere, was published by HarperNorth in January 2023.

Start Writing: Creative Writing Workshops at Wooler Library