Writing with Images: Geography of Echoes
A free creative workshop led by award-winning fiction writer Penny Simpson and poet/textile artist Carole Webster.
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Sat 9 May 26
14:00 - 16:00
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Colchester Campus
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Event speaker
Penny Simpson (University fo Essex) and Carole Webster, (freelance artist) workshop co-facilitators
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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
In this workshop, you will be encouraged to explore writing about character and place through playful experiment with text and image. How do we write about migratory lives; how might what we wear and carry become part of our stories? And what can we learn from visual artists like Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois who re-work items of clothing and pieces of fabric to express their sense of self and their place in the world.
Geography of Echoes is the second workshop in the Writing with Images series, created by Penny Simpson, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. The workshops are inspired by the extraordinary life and work of Polish writer and poet Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925), a woman who lived in four different countries and wrote in three language.
The Special Collections in the Library at the University hold many of Sophie’s literary works, notebooks and her 800-page diary which takes the form of an extended imagined conversation with her partner the artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1981-1915) who was killed in action fighting in the First World War.
The workshops are free and open to writers and creative practitioners of all levels (ages 16+). You can book a place by emailing us at pcsimp@essex.ac.uk.
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