In the Company of Writers: Play, Process, and Product
If you're reading this, you've probably been writing for a while and have a project or two that are almost complete. Or a project you keep meaning to come back to, or one you'd get done if only...
This series of Sundays of Gentle Creativity will be a space to take your project further, choose the one project that holds your curiosity and fascination, and explore the creative potential of letting go of a project. You'll explore the importance of prioritising, even if only for a short while, and become clearer about the motivation behind your work and how it fits into, and emerges from other aspects of your life.
As with all Sundays of Gentle Creativity workshops, we'll spend time writing together, sharing work in breakout rooms and as a group, and keep an eye on each other's progress through regular updates and feedback. The focus will be on the writing itself, as well as on taking advantage of the company of other writers to take stock of your wealth of written work and how to use what you already have to plan ahead.
Let's write for the pure love of writing and allow that delight to seep into all our writing projects.
To see some of the books Sundays of Gentle Creativity writers have published during the workshops, click here
What we'll do:
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Week 1 (29 Sept) Stocktaking
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Week 2 (6 Oct) Project Hierarchy: Pick One
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Week 3 (20 Oct) Distraction Alchemy: The Magic of Obstacles
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Week 4 (3 Nov) Feed the Monster: Nurturing Other Projects
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Week 5 (10 Nov) Done Is its Own Reward: One Part at a Time
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Week 6 (24 Nov) When One Part is Done: The Next Part
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Week 7 (1 Dec) A Three-Point Intention-Setting Plan for 2025
All writers are welcome. Although the workshops are in English, you're welcome to work in any language.
Limited to 12 participants
Place: Zoom
Dates and Times:
- Sundays, 29 Sept, 6 & 20 October, 3, 10 & 24 November, 1 December
- NOTE: no sessions on 13 & 27 October, 17 November
6 – 9pm Central European Time. Click here for the corresponding time where you are.
Cost: €240
About the tutor: Shaun Levin is a writer and artist based in Madrid. He is the author of Alone with a Man in a Room, Mark: A Novel, and Seven Sweet Things. He has edited the anthologies Things That Have Happened and Words Made Flesh, and his short stories and essays have appeared in over 50 journals and collections. He set up Treehouse Press and the literary and arts journals Chroma and The A3 Review, which he edited for ten years. His artists' books, zines and comics are held in the special collections of Harvard Library and the Universities of California at Irvine and at Santa Barbara, amongst others. He has participated in the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery and the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. He has been teaching creative writing for over twenty years.