05/04/2024
Free Creative Writing and Publishing Workshops
Join our free 10-week creative writing and publishing programme at Ocean Studios with the opportunity to publish an original piece of your writing in the first Ocean Publishing Partnership zine.
Improve your writing skills with five weekly sessions each focusing on a different form: poetry, experimental fiction, flash fiction, lyrics and short plays. Then, spend four weeks designing, editing and producing a zine featuring your work using the Ocean Studios printing facilities. The final session will be an Open Mic night, during which you can read or perform your work from the newly published zine.
The five creative writing workshops will be held every Thursday from 18:30 to 20:30 in the Ocean Studios café, from May 9 to June 6. Then there will be a week’s break followed by four publishing workshops and a final Open Mic night held every Tuesday from 18:30 to 20:30, from June 18 to July 16.
The creative writing workshops are led by writer Hannah Wood, founder of Story Juice and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Plymouth. The publishing workshops are led by Alan Qualtrough, Letterpress Lead at RAMP, founder of Kiss & Bite Letterpress, co-founder of Ocean Publishing Partnership, Editor of the Stonehouse Voice, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Western Morning News and Evening Herald.
Ocean Publishing Partnership, a collaboration between Slate Publishing House , Real Ideas Organisation, and the Stonehouse Voice, is grateful for funding from Plymouth Octopus - POP to run this programme.
If you want to join the workshops or need more information, email [email protected]. We anticipate a high demand for this course and will hold a ballot if it is oversubscribed.
