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Leicester Open Centre
Present a
Creative Writing Workshop
PLACING HISTORIES
part of the
"WRITING HISTORIES" project
ON SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2007
at BBC RADIO LEICESTER
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DAYSCHOOL 1 : 29 September 2007
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
(W. Somerset Maugham)
Creative Writing Dayschool, 29 September
TIMETABLE
10amRegistration and Introduction
Jonathan Taylor10-11.30amWorkshop 1:
Researching History and Place: A Case StudyVictoria Smith
11.30-11.45amBreak
11.45-1.15pmWorkshop 2:
Home and Away: Building a Sense of PlaceVictoria Poolman1.15-2.00pmLunch break
2.00-3.30Workshop 3:
Places, Times
Simon King
DESCRIPTIONS OF WORKSHOPS
(29 September 2007)
Dear writer,
Welcome to this dayschool. The main point of today is enjoyment, so I do hope you enjoy the day and benefit from the classes, seminars and workshops.
The dayschool is part of an ongoing project Crystal Clear Creators is running with a grant from National Lottery funder, Awards for All. The project is called Writing Histories. The aim is to run four dayschools in and around Leicestershire on some of the ways in which history and creative writing interrelate for example, how historical sources might be shaped into new poetry, prose or radio scripts.
Following these dayschools, Crystal Clear Creators will invite participants and members to submit the work they have developed for consideration for recording and production. We aim to develop four radio programmes. For one of them, we will record and produce a selection of short stories and poetry. Please consider developing some of the prose or poetry you have produced in the workshops today, and then sending it to me ( HYPERLINK "mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk" crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk) for consideration for inclusion this first programme.
For the other three programmes, we will run a competition, whereby people are invited to submit proposals for full-length radio dramas on historical subjects. After the closing date, these proposals will be judged by a professional writer, who will select three winning entries. The winners will be contacted, and asked to develop the proposals into full-length scripts, of 45 minutes each. During this process, the three writers will mentored by professional writers, who will oversee the writing process. When completed, these scripts will be recorded and produced by Crystal Clear Creators.
Full details of the competition are given below.
Many thanks, and enjoy the day,
Jonathan Taylor,
Crystal Clear Creators.
HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk" www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk
Short Descriptions of Individual Workshops, 29 September 2007
Workshop 1, with Victoria Smith: Researching Place and History: A Case Study
Regardless of which aspect of writing about history you are inspired by it is always important to recognise the characters that bring your places and events to life. This workshop looks at ways of finding those characters and bringing them to life. We will be using Leicestershire's involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a case study.
Workshop 2, with Victoria Rose Poolman: Home & Away: Building a Sense of PlaceVictoria Poolman looks at developing a sense of place in writing.Using historical facts combined with imagery, the workshop will develop a piece of writing with an emphasis on the senses, a focus on detail and use of the local language to build a strong atmosphere in writing. The workshop will then help with building a sense of place somewhere a little more familiar, by applyingthesame techniques and devicesto a location of everyones choice.
Workshop 3, with Simon King: Places, Times
In The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley famously writes: The Past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Often a sense of history conflicts with a sense of place history is something that is always elsewhere, always a foreign country, while a sense of place can be the most immediate and local of sensations. In this session we will think about the past, and about place, and about the narrative strategies we can use to suggest place, suggest time.
AFTER THE DAYSCHOOL
Please take away the writing you have drafted in the seminars and workshops today and rework it. If it is prose or poetry, do consider submitting it for inclusion in our projected programme of extracts (see above) to Jonathan Taylor (crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk). Please also see below for a description of our competition. If you want to find out more about the other dayschools we are running, contact Robin Webber-Jones at HYPERLINK mailto:rwebberjones@yahoo.com rwebberjones@yahoo.com.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS AND ORGANISERS
Simon King
Simon King first performed with the Worcester based satirical review ensemble, Dismayed In England. He is a co-founder of the Brighton based theatre company, Zone of Discomfort. ZODs first offering was a piece of theatre anthology, An Evening with Steven Berkoff. ZOD concentrated exclusively on performing the work of the up-and-coming Brighton playwright, David Allen, beginning with his play, Dont Worry About Him, based loosely on Rose West. Simon directed and performed in all of the productions of Allens work, and was especially pleased to have a piece, Happy, written exclusively for him. Since coming to Loughborough, Simon has focused on recording, acting and writing. He has also performed work by various writers at events held in Loughborough and Leicester. He has taught literature and creative writing at various places, including Loughborough University. Simon is the author of the book Insect Nations: Visions of the Ant World, published by Inker Men Press. He is currently working on a book about science-fiction.
Victoria Rose Poolman
Having completed an MA in Creative Writing at Loughborough University, Victoria Poolman now works as a magazine editor in Leeds. Her passion is poetry, which is mainly focused on travels throughout Asia and Europe. Her hobbies include travel, reading, films, 'culinary explorations' and climbing. Having been published in various poetry presses, anthologies, webzines and on the BBC website,she hopes topursue her writing further over the next year,with the aim of having a collection published.
Victoria Smith is a keen traveller and photographer whose wanderlust inspires much of her poetry and prose. Following a degree in Drama with English and a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Literature, specialising in Creative Writing,she worked for a publishing company forsome years before returning to university tostudy for her PhD in Creative Writing. She is now in the process of writing her first full novel. Alongside this, she works for Crystal Clear Creators as an administrator and dayschool tutor.
Jonathan Taylors memoir, Take Me Home: Parkinsons, My Father, Myself, was published in July 2007 by Granta. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University. He has had short stories and prose pieces published in various magazines including Staple, Raw Edge, Kimota, Granta, Guardian Education, The Coffee House, Xenos, A Chides Alphabet, The Wandering Dog and The Times Literary Supplement (forthcoming), amongst others. His work has been performed live at various venues. He has also had radio plays recorded and broadcast on various radio stations; these include The Music Master which was commissioned by East Midlands Arts, and a comedy-soap called The Willows for Carillon Radio. He and his work have been broadcast on Oneword, Radio 5 Live, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, Virtually American, Resonance FM, Radio Cumbria, Radio Three Counties, Radio Jersey, Radio Leicester and many others. He is the co-founder and co-director of Crystal Clear Creators.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Crystal Clear Creators is a not-for-profit organisation and company limited by guarantee which develops, records and showcases new and established talent for radio, including writers, voice-overs and producers. It has recorded radio drama, poetry and prose. It is developing links with radio stations across the region as well as with the B.B.C. It has had material broadcast on Resonance FM, Oneword, Virtually American, Heat FM, Loughborough Campus Radio, Carillon Radio, BBC Radio Leicester, Takeover Radio, Carillon Radio and others. It is currently developing programmes for Saga FM and Oneword. It has hosted various public events in Loughborough and Leicester, and various dayschools and courses across the East Midlands region. Its website is HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk" www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk. Crystal Clear Creators is funded by the Arts Council England, National Lottery schemes, Riverside Housing, C.I.B.S., Ernest Cook Trust, Loughborough University Development Trust, and other bodies.
Membership of Crystal Clear Creators is 5 yearly. As a member, you receive regular newsletters and can appear on our website, simply by sending us contact details and a short biography (say, 4-5 lines). Crystal Clear Creators is always looking to record and produce new work. As a member, you are entitled to have your work considered for recording and broadcasting via the website. You will also have the opportunity to work on the various programmes we are currently producing for local radio stations.
Some miscellaneous thoughts on history, time and (creative) writing .
Language is fossil poetry. It is true that for us very often this poetry which is bound up in words has in great part or altogether disappeared. We fail to recognise it, partly from long familiarity with it, partly from insufficient knowledge, partly, it may be, from never having had our attention called to it . On every side we are beset with poetry. Popular language is full of it, of words used in an imaginative sense, of things called by names having immediate reference not to what they are, but to what they are like. All language is in some sort, as one has said, a collection of faded metaphors (Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Study of Words (1908), pp.46-8).
The hours of folly are measurd by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure (Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plates 7-10).
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure, and silent heart language of the old [sun]dial! (Charles Lamb, The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple (1821)).
In Breughels Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure.
(W. H. Auden)
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they understand not; the trumpts which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Shelley, A Defence of Poetry).
It is no very good symptom either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them (Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times (1829), p.56, in Critical and Misc. Essays, vol.2).
Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)).
I am calling attention to the existence of low people by whose interference, however little we may like it, the course of the world is very much determined (George Eliot, Middlemarch).
The Political Historian, once almost the sole cultivator of history dwelt with disproportionate fondness in Senate-houses [and] Kings Antechambers; forgetting, that far from such scenes, a whole world of Existence was blossoming and fading (Thomas Carlyle, On History).
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read, and comes to realise that he is answerable (Nadine Gordimer).
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true (Woodrow Wilson).
Any knowledge of the past is necessarily mediated by texts . History is in many respects textual (Bennett and Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory).
The history of the world presents us with a rational process (Hegel, The Philosophy of History).
It is not in acted, as it is in written History: actual events are nowise so simply related to each other as parent and offspring are; every single event is the offspring not of one, but of all other events, prior or contemporaneous, and will in its turn combine with all other to give birth to new: it is an ever-living, ever-working Chaos of Being . And this Chaos, boundless as the habitation and duration of man, is what the historian will depict and scientifically gauge, we may say, by threading it with single lines of a few ells in length. . All Narrative is, by its nature, of only one dimension . Narrative is linear, Action is solid (Carlyle, On History).
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WRITING HISTORIES: A RADIO DRAMA COMPETITION
Press release
Crystal Clear Creators ( HYPERLINK http://www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk), an arts organisation based in the East Midlands, is pleased to announce a new radio drama competition. The competition open to all, and will culminate in the production of the three winning radio dramas.
Entrants are invited to write a one-page proposal for a possible full-length (45-minute) radio drama on a historical theme. From the entries, the best three proposals will be chosen by a panel of judges. The writers of these winning proposals will be given the opportunity to develop the full scripts, whilst receiving mentoring from experienced writers. The three radio dramas will then be recorded and produced by Crystal Clear Creators. They will broadcast via the organisations website, and we will promote them to local and regional radio stations.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 23 November 2007.
If you require further details, or for full submission guidelines, please contact Jonathan Taylor at HYPERLINK mailto:crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk) crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk. Entry costs 2 for members, 3 for non-members. Cheques should be made payable to Crystal Clear Creators and included with entries. See below for full submission guidelines.
This competition represents the culmination of a series of creative writing dayschools run by Crystal Clear Creators, and is part of a project called Writing Histories, funded by Awards for All (National Lottery).
Full submission guidelines
Entries should be in the form of a one-page proposal, outlining a possible radio drama of forty-five minutes in length on an historical subject. The structure of the proposal is up to you, but should include details about theme, main characters and plot.
Though the proposed radio drama should be on a historical subject, you are free to interpret this in any way you feel appropriate.
Proposals should be in at least 11 point size, and should be headed with a title for the piece. You should not include your name on the proposal itself, but please include a separate covering letter or cover page which gives your name, address, email and phone number, as well as the title of your proposed radio drama. The title on the cover sheet should, obviously, be the same as the title at the top of the proposal.
You are permitted to enter as many times as you wish, but each entry costs 2 for members, 3 for non-members. Cheques should be made payable to Crystal Clear Creators and included with each entry. All money raised will make it possible for Crystal Clear Creators to continue this kind of work with new and up-and-coming writers.
Please send all entries in the first instance by email attachment to Jonathan Taylor at HYPERLINK mailto:crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk. Entries should be sent as word attachments to emails. If you do not have access to email, please contact Jonathan Taylor at 0116 2506185.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 23rd November 2007.
We will contact the three winning entrants, and will inform all entrants via email of the results of the competition, in early January 2008.
Entries will be judged on the quality of writing and the quality and originality of ideas.
The judges decision is final.
Winning entrants will be invited to develop their scripts with the help of mentoring by experienced writers. The mentoring will be the equivalent of three half days for each winner. The final full-length scripts will be roughly 45 minutes in length, and will be recorded and produced by Crystal Clear Creators. The radio dramas will be uploaded onto the website, and promoted to relevant radio stations for possible broadcasts.
Jonathan Taylor
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DAYSCHOOL FEEDBACK SHEET
Dear Dayschool Participant,
Were always looking for feedback, comments and suggestions on the events and projects we run. Crystal Clear Creators is a members-led and public-led organisation. So please take a few minutes to fill this form in at the end of the dayschool. You can hand it to one of the course leaders, email it to victoriaellensmith@gmail.com, or post it to: V. E Smith, 28 Clarence Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 1DX. Many thanks for your time.
Jonathan, Robin and Vicky
What comments would you like to make about todays dayschool?
What suggestions do you have for future dayschools, or future projects in general?
INTRODUCING a new project: THE STREET
We are planning to develop a section of our website for interactive use. The first project we are planning is called The Street. A virtual street will be constructed including houses and some local amenities. In addition, each building will be assigned a certain number of inhabitants. This will then be open for all Crystal Clear Creator members to bring the inhabitants to life. You can create anyone you chose and can either work on a whole household of just one person. Give them a biography and the set to work adding depth and intrigue to their character. Be the pet dog if you chose, it would be a great device to offer a fly on the wall view of the whole family!
Our aim is to develop The Street into a community, allowing you to create dialogue between individuals, relationships and events.
At the moment this idea is at planning stages and we would really appreciate your feedback, so please take a few moments to complete the following questions
Are you interested in this idea?
Do you think you would chose to take part once the project goes live?
Do you have any suggestions for how you would like to see this project developed or any functions you would like to see incorporated?
Thank you for taking the time to offer your feedback!
Your name and email address (optional)
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