Writing with Images: Archive, Text & Image
The first in a three part series of creative writing workshops
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Sat 25 Apr 26
14:00 - 16:30
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Colchester Campus
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Event speaker
Dr Penny Simpson
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Event type
Workshops, training and support
Writing with Images -
Event organiser
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Department of
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Contact details
Dr Penny Simpson pcsimp@essex.ac.uk
Join fiction writer Penny Simpson and photo-artist Ania Ready for a creative writing workshop centred on discovering creative strategies to fill in the gaps in a life lived – real or imagined.
How does a writer bring together archival sources, text and image to construct past lives? What clues are left behind, and how might we re-imagine them? The workshop will also include a visit to the Library, University of Essex, to view a specially curated exhibition of items from Polish Modernist writer Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska’s archive, the inspiration for this workshop.
Writing with Images has been devised by Dr Penny Simpson, an author and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, in collaboration with the Special Collections at the University Library. The workshops are co-facilitated by photo-artist Ania Ready. In the workshops, participants will learn new approaches to writing through playful experiment with text and image.
Two more workshops will follow on Saturday 9 May and Saturday 20 June.