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Updated Online Schedule Jan-Apr 2021

21 January 2021

Revised ArtfulScribe online schedule: Jan-April 2021

 

 

 

Mondays 5-6.30pm                         ArtfulScribe After School Club (free to attend)

                                                            Aimed at Secondary School and 6th Form college-aged participants, led by Tabitha Hayward featuring creative approaches to generate new work for publication, performance, and personal satisfaction (all genres)

 

For sign-up details please email youngwritersonline@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

Tabitha Hayward holds a First Class English Degree from University of Oxford and works as a script-reader for Finborough Theatre and as an English tutor. A brilliantly engaging creative practitioner.

 

 

Mondays 7-8.30pm:                       Mayflower Creative Writers (free to attend)

                                                            (18-25 years) led by Antosh Wojcik

writing, editing and developing work for performance and publication (all genres)

            

For sign-up details, please email mayflowercreativewriters@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

Playwright, dramatist, and performance poet, Antosh has featured on Sky Arts, toured nationally and is a former winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam.

 

Mondays 7-9pm                              An Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing 

(see session dates)                         led by Joanna Barnard

A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis

Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.

 

For sign-up details please email

writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

Session dates 1/15/29 March, 19 April, 10/24 May 2021

 

Wednesdays 7-9pm                       comMent

(see session dates)                         led by ArtfulScribe director, Matt West

 

A supportive community writing group for men, and people who identify as male, to explore, develop and create new writing reflecting contemporary perspectives of masculinity. 

 

For sign-up details please email:

matt@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

This is a 6-week pilot project to gauge interest and shape a future ArtfulScribe offer.

Session dates 10/17/24 Feb, 3/10/17 March 2021

 

 

Thursdays 5-6pm                           ArtfulScribe Junior Writers Club (free to attend)

                                                (7-11 years) led by Susmita Bhattacharya

This group, aimed at primary school children, features fun ways to engage and get creative with words, encouraging young people’s voices to be heard.

 

                                                            For sign-up details, please email

                                                            juniorwritersclub@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

Susmita is an award-winning novelist whose recent book Table Manners won a Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and when not writing Susmita is mother to two young ladies.

 

 

First Thursday of each month     SO:Write Women

11-1pm and third Saturday of

each month 10am-12pm               led by Joanna Barnard

A group tailored towards creating, sharing and celebrating women’s writing in a safe and supportive environment

 

                                                            For sign-up details please email

                                                            sowritewomen@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

 

Joanna Barnard won the Bath Novel Award in 2014 with Precocious and her second novel Hush Little Baby was published in 2017. Jo has worked with SO:Write Women for the past three years.

You can find out more about Joanna at www.joannaibarnard.wordpress.comand read about SO:Write Women in our blog at www.artfulscribe.co.uk/blogs

 

Thursday 11am-1pm                     An Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing 

Weeks 1 and 3 of each month      led by Joanna Barnard

A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis

Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.

 

For sign-up details please email

writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

                                                            Please note this is a 6-session course, starting 21 Jan 2021.

 

 

Thursday 11am-1pm                     Writing for Wellbeing (advanced)*

Weeks 2 and 4 of each month      led by Joanna Barnard

A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis

Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.

 

For sign-up details please email

writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

*Please note, this group is only available for people who have completed an ‘Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing course with Joanna. This is a 6-session course offer.

 

 

 

Saturday 9.30 – 11.00am               Mayflower Young Writers (11-14 years) Free to attend

led by Susmita Bhattacharya                       

A Hampshire-based group for young writers who normally meet at Mayflower Theatre during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including publishing an anthology and writing for performance

 

                                                            For sign-up details, please email

                                                            youngwriters@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

 

Saturday 11.15am- 1pm                Mayflower Young Writers (15-18 years) Free to attend

                                                            led by Susmita Bhattacharya                       

A Hampshire-based group for young writers who normally meet at Mayflower Theatre during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance

 

For sign-up details, please email

                                                            youngwriters@artfulscribe.co.uk

 

 

Saturday 9.15 – 1045am                Lighthouse Young Writers (11-14 years) Free to attend

                                                            led by Tabitha Hayward

A Dorset-based group for young writers who normally meet at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance

 

                                                            For sign-up details please email

                                                            Perdie.Bargh@lighthousepoole.co.uk

 

Saturday  11.30 – 1pm                   Lighthouse Young Writers (15-18 years) Free to attend

                                                            led by Tabitha Hayward

A Dorset-based group for young writers who normally meet at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance

 

For sign-up details please email

                                                            Perdie.Bargh@lighthousepoole.co.uk

 

 

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