10am-12noon
This workshop is aimed at aspiring writers (16yrs+) who are looking to develop their skills, albeit beginners are also welcome to join.
Come and be inspired by writer and poet Dr Velma McClymont (aka children’s author Kate Elizabeth Ernest), who has published six books to date: Hope Leaves Jamaica, Festus and Felix, Birds in the Wilderness, Tricky Tricky Twins, Little River, and Walk-Foot Woman and Other Poems. Her seventh book, A Home for Mr No-Roach, is a children’s picture book that is due to be published in mid-August.
Please click on the headline for more info and how to book your free place
Aims
The workshop will enable aspiring writers (poets, elders, storytellers and young writers who attended Workshop 1) to use clear instruction to enable them to:
- Explore the elements of fiction writing
- Get the opportunity to write in a range of genres (fiction, poetry and life writing)
- And to share their writing with the group
Objectives
Participants will:
- Produce a short piece of creative writing
- Learn where to collect writing ideas from
- Be given the opportunity to read their written work aloud
- Develop a writing journal
- Form a local writers’ circle
What to bring
Please bring writing paper and something to write with
This is a completely free workshop, but booking is essential due to limited places: BOOK HERE
The location of this workshop is the Community Room, West Norwood Library
It is being run as a collaborative project between Dr Velma and West Norwood Cemetery: A New Beginning, a project that seeks to conserve the Cemetery’s magnificent landscape and built structures, as well as offer new experiences and facilities to increase community use.
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More about Dr McClymont
Dr Velma McClymont is a writer, poet, scholar-activist, international speaker and the director/publisher of WomanzVue Books. She is a former lecturer in Caribbean Studies and has worked in banking, local government and as a visiting author in schools and libraries across the UK (including Scotland) and in Jamaica.
Her latest novel is Little River, a sweeping historical novel of a Scottish sugar baron and the Jamaica his life becomes enmeshed with.
A Windrush child, Dr. McClymont, born in rural Jamaica, joined her parents in England in the late 1960's. She grew up in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth where she attended a RC convent school.
