Crafting Genres Workshop Series - 8th July to 6th August 2024

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Drawing-Infused Writing Workshop with Tawona Sitholé

A multi-disciplinary online writing workshop exploring how we can combine drawing and writing. This workshop is suitable for writers (or people who write) and who also draw or doodle and are interested in how these two practices can inform and support each other.

About Tawona:

Better known as Ganyamatope, my ancestral family name, my heritage inspires me to connect with other people through creativity. A poet, mbira musician and playwright, I am co-founder of Seeds of Thought, non-profit arts group. I spend time organising and building our relationships, writing plays, poetry and performing. Lecturer and UNESCO artist-in-residence at the University of Glasgow.

Writing Your Memoir Workshop with Chitra Ramaswamy

Do you dream of writing your memoir? In our memoir writing workshop with Chitra Ramaswamy, participants will be guided in ways to approach memoir writing.

This workshop is suitable for writers and people with a writing practice, beginners and experienced, who are working on or want to write a memoir.

About Chitra:

Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, and was reissued in spring 2024. She writes for The Guardian, is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, broadcasts for BBC Radio, and is currently working on her third book. She is from London and lives in Edinburgh.

Recipes and Food Writing as Activism Workshop with Sean Wai Keung

Sean will guide participants in food as writing inspiration and how to use food writing in community contexts.

This workshop is suitable for writers and people with a writing practice, beginners and experienced.

About Sean:

Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet and performance maker whose work often explores concepts of mixed-ness and migration. His immersive and interactive performance piece ‘A History of Fortune Cookies’ received the 2024 Autopsy Award and will be staged throughout August at Summerhall, Edinburgh. For more information, please visit seanwaikeung.carrd.co

Writing a Thriller Novel Workshop with Rachelle Atalla

Working on a thriller novel? In our writing workshop with Rachelle Atalla, participants will be guided in how to take an unconventional approach to thriller writing.

This workshop is suitable for writers and people with a writing practice, beginners and experienced, who are working on or want to write a thriller.

About Rachelle:

Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her debut novel The Pharmacist was shortlisted for Best Fiction at the Scottish National Book Awards. In 2023, she published her second novel Thirsty Animals, and in 2024 she publishes her third novel The Salt Flats. Her short stories have been published widely, she has written for BBC Radio 4, is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and in 2024 Rachelle was appointed as the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, hosted by the University of Stirling. In screenwriting, her first short film Trifle was commissioned by the Scottish Film & Talent Network, her first feature was developed with BBC Film, and she is now developing a film adaption of The Pharmacist with Compact Pictures and the BFI.

Twitter/X handle @rachelle_ata / IG handle @rachelleatalla

Intro to Writing Fantasy workshop with Tendai Huchu

Tendai will guide participants through and introduction to writing fantasy.

This workshop is suitable for writers and people with a writing practice, beginners and experienced.

About Tendai:

T.L. Huchu’s work has appeared in ‘Lightspeed’, ‘Interzone’, ‘Analog Science Fiction & Fact’, ‘The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021’, ‘Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’, ‘Mystery Weekly’, ‘The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016’, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2023), Alex Award (2022), the Children’s Africana Book Award (2021), a Nommo Award for African SFF (2022, 2017), and has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize (2014) and the Grand prix de l’Imaginaire (2019). The fourth book in his Edinburgh Nights series titled ‘The Legacy of Arniston House’ is out in November 2024. Find him @TendaiHuchu.

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