Writing Workshop: Using the Senses in Creative Writing

Writing Workshop: Using the Senses in Creative Writing

Join Anita Goveas for a creative writing workshop exploring how to use touch, taste, sound, smell and visual images in writing.

By Bethlem Gallery

Date and time

Sat, 7 Jun 2025 11:00 - 13:00 GMT+1

Location

Bethlem Gallery

Monks Orchard Road Beckenham BR3 3BX United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Join Anita Goveas for a creative writing workshop exploring how to use touch, taste, sound, smell and visual images in writing, taking inspiration from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection.


Anita Goveas is a British-Asian writer of flash fiction and short stories. Her debut flash collection, Families and other natural disasters, is available from Reflex Press.

She's also co-edited (with Susmita Battacharya and Farhana Khalique) Flash Fusion an anthology of flash fiction, writing prompts and interviews by and about authors of South Asian Heritage available from Dahlia Publishing.

Goveas is Creative Future’s 2025 London Writer In Residence, in partnership with and hosted by Bethlem Gallery.

About Bethlem Gallery workshops

Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult. Concessions are available for SLaM service users, people over 60, students, people receiving ESA, people registered disabled and their carers. We take photos at our workshops to use on social media – please speak to the facilitator if you do not want to appear in any photos.

If you are unable to attend the workshop, please contact us to cancel your place. We often have a waiting list.

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Bethlem Gallery

The Bethlem Gallery, established 1997, is situated on the grounds of The Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Managed by a small, artist-led team, the gallery provides a professional space for high-quality artwork and fosters a supportive artist-focused environment.

Exhibitions and events are programmed throughout the year presenting a wide range of mediums and contemporary practice. The gallery is an ideal platform for experimentation, collaboration and skills exchange. Collectively we strive to develop the careers, experience and expertise of the gallery artists by creating opportunities for professional development. Our successful artist-in-residence projects also work with patients and staff on site to improve people’s experience of the hospital environment.

The Bethlem Gallery programme includes collaborations with Bethlem Museum of the Mind, artists-in-residence, interdisciplinary research and partnerships with arts organisations across the UK and beyond. We campaign for access to the arts in healthcare environments and engage audiences in learning and debate on the subject of mental health and artistic practice.

The gallery is free and open to all. Donations welcomed

“Pills are ok, counselling is ok and it will get you back on the streets, but what keeps your mind alive is what you learn here. That’s what it’s about – keeping your spirit alive.” – Lee, Bethlem artist.

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