Devotion is a practice-based creative writing workshop that nurtures writing practices through communal writing sessions that foster accountability, solidarity and collective learning.
Winter 2024/25 Devotion Workshops
Be Strong Bernadette
Workshops Thursdays from 6pm-8pm UK time via Zoom.
November 21, 28, December 5, 12 & 19
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Solstice Event
Saturday December 21st
Be Strong Bernadette is a new five week online workshop exploring late New York School poet Bernadette Mayer's archive, concluding with an online marathon reading of her seminal text Midwinter Day on Winter Solstice.
Each week we will look at a series of poems from a different part of Mayer's archive as prompts for writing. Techniques explored will include: writing through and with time, writing and domesticity, writing and caregiving, the sonnet form, life as material, working with found language and collage, automatic writing, durational writing.
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Absolute Beginners
Workshops Thursdays from 6pm-8pm UK time via Zoom.
January 16, 23, 30, February 6 & 13
Our signature Devotion workshop, Absolute Beginners is a five week online writing course for those just starting to write, coming back to writing after a hiatus, in a rut with their practice, finding their existing tools and techniques stale, or just wanting to refresh their approach to writing. No homework, no preparation, everybody welcome.
Topics covered:
*Why we write
*What writing can do for us emotionally, creatively, intellectually and spiritually
*How to build writing routines, prompts and creative play into our lives
*Writing with and through burnout
*Metaphor and imagery
*Originality, newness and vitality of expression
*Finding form(s)
*Working with resistance
*Pleasure, joy and excess as antidotes to writer’s block
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