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Do you find yourself holding on to old photographs, letters, tickets - scraps that tempt a story? Have you ever kept an album, diary or scrapbook? How can we craft a whole from this jumble of parts?In this weekend workshop, join @alexis_stephanie_ and @anniebrooker_ to take fragmentary collections as starting points for narrative.
Together, you'll explore how keepsakes, notes and memories can inspire - and frustrate - attempts to tell a story; how everyday objects mediate private and public worlds; and techniques for writing into and around the gaps in our everyday archives.
This exploratory workshop will be guided by friends Marianne Brooker and Alexis Wolf. They welcome participants already working on a project, or those feeling the first stirrings of an idea or desire to write. No previous experience is necessary - just curiosity.
About your workshop hosts:
Marianne Brooker is a writer and campaigner living in Bristol. Her PhD thesis explored eighteenth-century poetry collections, encyclopedias, colour charts and museum archives as sites of fugitive knowledge. Her first book, Intervals, describes living with her mother at the end of her life. Intervals won the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and was longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Alexis Wolf lives in Battle, East Sussex. She teaches English at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her first book, Transnational Women’s Writing: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, uses archives to reconstruct forgotten women’s lives. Her chapbook of swimming essays, Body of Water, was published by Two Plum Press in 2022.
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Horns Corner, Catsfield, TN33 9DT Battle, United Kingdom, Bexhill, United Kingdom
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