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Leicester Open Centre
and
present a
CREATIVE WRITING DAY SCHOOL
on the 1 October 2005
as part of their project,
TELL-TALES
DAYSCHOOL 1 : 1 OCTOBER 2005
Im in words, made of words, others words.
(Beckett, The Unnamable)
1 October: TIMETABLE
9.30-9.45amRegistration
9.45-10amIntroduction and welcomeJonathan Taylor and Robin Webber-Jones10.00-11.30amHome and AwayMystie Hood
11.30-11.40amBreak
11.40-1pmThe Novel: Getting Started
Kate Delamere1-2pmLunch break
2-3.40pmWriting Home
Maria Orthodoxou
DESCRIPTIONS OF WORKSHOPS
(1 October 2005)
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 Riverside Midlands, called Tell-Tales. This project is funded by Riverside and is supported by BBC Leicester. The aim is to run a series of four free dayschools in Leicester on creative writing. Thereafter, Crystal Clear Creators will upload some of the work developed in and after the workshops onto its website ( HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org" www.crystalclearcreators.org) and produce a c.d. of selected recordings. After the workshops, please consider rewriting and developing some of the writing and send it to me (Jonathan Taylor, HYPERLINK "mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk" J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk) for consideration for the website and/or the c.d. Its your chance to get your work published, recorded and professionally produced!
Many thanks, and enjoy the day, Jonathan Taylor, Crystal Clear Creators.
Short Descriptions of Individual Workshops, 1 October 2005
Back to Basics Getting Writing Right with Maria Orthodoxou
This will be a session on dealing with the crucial aspects of prose that underpin writing. Far from being prescriptive, it is intended to be a lively slot that stimulates the creative process.
Writing for Radio with Tony Coult
Increasingly a practical use for Radio drama is the delivery of PSIs (Public Service Announcements) in Developing Countries. Radio writer TONY COULT has worked with ex-BBC and now successful independent radio producer Turan Ali (Bona Lattie Productions) to run courses at Radio Nederland on the use of Drama in health and social campaigns, for radio producers from countries all over the world.. Tony will run a practical workshop to develop ideas for short, punchy drama, as well as for longer, soap-formatted series. You will be working in territory somewhere between Art, Advertising and Drama for Development. Depending on numbers, it is hoped that some pieces can be recorded with participants as actors. HYPERLINK "http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/" http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Beginning Fiction with Mystie Hood
Beginning fiction writers often believe plot is the first and foremost requirement of fiction. Thus, they often start a story knowing exactly how it will play out, exactly who will do what to whom and when (if not always why), and as such there is very little room left for surprise. This is a workshop about writing without plot, writing to surprise both reader and writer. Here is an exercise designed to encourage the beginning writer not to meticulously plot but merely to write, line by line, without knowing the intended destination.
AFTER THE DAYSCHOOL
Please take away the work you have drafted in the seminars and workshops today and rework it. Then please do submit it to be considered for Crystal Clear Creators website and for the c.d. we are aiming to produce at the end of the Tell-Tales project. Please send any poetry, prose or short scripts to Jonathan Taylor at HYPERLINK mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk (electronic copies only in the first instance). 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
Tony Coult is a writer and teacher of drama. As a playwright for young people he has written for Proteus Theatre Co., New Perspectives, Cockpit TiE, Theatre Centre, amongst others. He has written regularly for BBC Radio 4 drama, mainly on historical subjects. He is a regular drama workshop leader at Guys Hospital School and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit. He has taught at Loughborough University and Rose Bruford Drama College and has published books about the work of playwrights Edward Bond and Brian Friel, and co-edited with Baz Kershaw Engineers of the Imagination, the Welfare State Handbook. HYPERLINK "http://tony3ts.members.beeb.net/" HYPERLINK "http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/" http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Mystie Hood is an American writer who is currently doing a Ph.D in CreativeWriting. She is writing her first novel, after writing short stories for many years, including on an M.A. writing programme in the U.S.
Maria Orthodoxou is a poet from Loughborough who has been published invarious magazines. She has performed her work live at events in Warwick, Coventry, Leamington, Loughborough, Leicester, Crewe and elsewhere. She studied poetry with Glyn Maxwell, David Morley, Carol Ann Duffy, Sophie Hannah and others, at B.A. and M.A. level. She has recorded for Crystal Clear Creators, as an actor, director and a poet. She currently teaches English at a school in Leicester, and has taught creative writing in schools, colleges, weekend schools and dayschools.
Jonathan Taylor is convenor of the M.A. strand in Creative Writing at Loughborough University. He has had short stories published in various magazines including Staple, Raw Edge, Kimota, The Coffee House, Xenos, A Chides Alphabet and The Wandering Dog. His work has been performed live at various venues. He has also had radio plays recorded and broadcast; these include The Music Master which was commissioned by East Midlands Arts, and a comedy-soap called The Willows for Carillon Radio. He is the co-founder and co-director of Crystal Clear Creators. In 2003, he was awarded an Arts Council grant to research and write a novel-length memoir entitled Misrecognising Bogart, on which he is currently working.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Crystal Clear Creators is a not-for-profit organisation 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 Heat FM, Loughborough Campus Radio and Takeover Radio. It is currently developing programmes for Carillon Radio, Rutland Radio and Takeover Radio. It records work for various organisations, including audio books. It has hosted various public events in Loughborough and Leicester. Its website is HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org" www.crystalclearcreators.org. Crystal Clear Creators is funded by the Arts Council England, National Lottery schemes, Riverside Housing, Ernest Cook Trust, and other bodies.
Membership of Crystal Clear Creators is 5 yearly. If you wish to become a member, please contact Jonathan Taylor ( HYPERLINK mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk). Members 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 for new writers, performers and producers for members; it is also 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 THOUGHTS ON HOME (AND AWAY)
From Robert Frost, Death of the Hired Man.
Warren, she said, he has come home to die:You neednt be afraid he'll leave you this time.
Home, he mocked gently.
Yes, what else but home?It all depends on what you mean by home.Of course hes nothing to us, any morethen was the hound that came a stranger to usOut of the woods, worn out upon the trail.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,They have to take you in.
I should have called itSomething you somehow havent to deserve.
From Charles Lamb, The Old Familiar Faces.
Ghostlike, I paced round the haunts of my childhood;
Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.
From Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
But here you are at your own hearth and home; here you can utter everything and pour out every reason, nothing is here ashamed of hidden, hardened feelings . But down there, everything speaks, everything is unheard.
From Blake Morrison, Havens.
A brass bedstead, a record still turning,
a pair of empty tumblers in the sink;
while history filled its tanks outside the door
there were always such places to miss it for,
.
Even the study, the cold spot of the house,
ould be warmed and soundproofed by new verse.
Then whats this danger that passes through bricks?
How come we are melting away like this?
From Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters.
An elegant new brass plate, large enough to accommodate everyone, was ordered for the front door. Jal suggested the names should be engraved in alphabetical order:
Mr. & Mrs. Yezad Chenoy
Mr. Jal Contractor
Mr. Nariman Vakeel.
From Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters.
They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seemd the sea, wary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, We will return no more;
And all at once they sang, Our island home
Is far beyond the wave, we will no longer roam.
From George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.
And then southern England . It is difficult when you pass that way to believe that anything is really happening anywhere. Earthquakes in Japan, famines in China, revolutions in Mexico? Dont worry, the milk will be on the doorstep tomorrow morning . The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earths surface. Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shal never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
From William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey.
Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind mans eye;
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet.
From John Clare, An Invite to Eternity.
Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
Where the path hath lost its way
Where the sun forgets the day?
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