Name: AMDANI - Writing Groups (November)
Start: 2025-11-19T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-19T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Tramshed Tech

Pilot initiative in partnership with Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing
About this Event

At Creative Cardiff, we host regular opportunities for creatives to come together for connection and collaboration through networking events, panels and socials. Since 2022, we’ve also hosted a range of ‘Creative Cardiff Classroom’ workshops, from pitching to public speaking to wreath-making to writing.

These workshops provide an opportunity for creatives to deep dive into specific topics with a group of like-minded individuals.Running alongside our Creative Cardiff Classroom events, we’re delighted to launch a new AMDANI pilot initiative (roughly translated from Cymraeg as 'GO FOR IT'), bringing artists, freelancers and businesses together to get creative and network in an informal environment, facilitated by an emerging creative.

We’re delighted to announce that our first AMDANI series will be delivered in partnership with Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing.

Taking place monthly from February 2025, Creative Cardiff will host an open, free-to-attend Writing Group for creatives at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff. Each monthly Writing Group will be facilitated by a student currently studying for their MA in Creative Writing and will focus on a different topic, theme or genre.

Facilitator: Dr Aiysha Jahan is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, Wasafiri and elsewhere.

Hermit Crab Flash: A family's story inside a recipe, a baby shower registry that reveals a difficult memory, a glossary that explores past loves: the hermit crab narrative tells its stories slant. Together we'll look at hermit crab flash stories, explore why the forms their authors have chosen are successful and write some of our own tiny stories in whacky and inventive ways.

Yng Nghaerdydd Creadigol, rydym yn cynnal cyfleoedd rheolaidd i bobl greadigol ddod at ei gilydd i gysylltu a chydweithio drwy ddigwyddiadau rhwydweithio, paneli a digwyddiadau cymdeithasol. Ers 2022, rydym hefyd wedi cynnal amrywiaeth o weithdai ‘Ystafell Ddosbarth Caerdydd Greadigol’, o rwydweithio i siarad cyhoeddus i wneud torch Nadolig i ysgrifennu.

Mae'r gweithdai hyn yn rhoi cyfle i bobl greadigol blymio'n ddwfn i bynciau penodol gyda grŵp o unigolion o'r un anian.Gan redeg ochr yn ochr â’n digwyddiadau Ystafell Ddosbarth Caerdydd Creadigol, mae’n bleser gennym lansio menter beilot newydd AMDANI, gan ddod ag artistiaid, gweithwyr llawrydd a busnesau ynghyd i fod yn greadigol a rhwydweithio mewn amgylchedd anffurfiol, wedi’i hwyluso gan berson creadigol sy'n dod i'r amlwg.

Mae’n bleser gennym gyhoeddi y bydd ein cyfres AMDANI gyntaf yn cael ei chyflwyno mewn partneriaeth a'r MA mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol Prifysgol Caerdydd.

Yn cael ei gynnal yn fisol o fis Chwefror 2025, bydd Caerdydd Creadigol yn cynnal Grŵp Ysgrifennu agored, rhad ac am ddim i bobl greadigol yn Tramshed Tech, Caerdydd. Bydd pob Grŵp Ysgrifennu misol yn cael ei hwyluso gan fyfyriwr sy’n astudio ar gyfer ei MA mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol a bydd yn canolbwyntio ar bwnc, thema neu genre gwahanol.

Hwylusydd: Mae Dr Aiysha Jahan yn Ddarlithydd mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Mae ei straeon byrion wedi cael eu cyhoeddi yn Ploughshares, Wasafiri ac mewn mannau eraill.