11.30am-5pm | 18+ yrs
A focused, daylong practical workshop using collaborative approaches to creative writing. Through responses to photographs and images, discussion and whole group activities, participants will generate new writing within a supportive and shared environment.
What will the workshop cover and how will it be taught?
The day opens with a shared interrogation of a photograph. From this image, the tutor will step into a role and enter into live dialogue with the group, disrupting the usual distance between stimulus and response. Group members will produce individual writing responses before being shared, reflected upon and shaped.
Through a series of engaging, interactive strategies, participants will deepen and extend their material—reflecting, rewriting and pushing the work into new territory. The emphasis throughout is on experimentation, risk-taking, and discovery, allowing writing to grow through action, voice and imaginative exchange. No acting skills are required by participants.
Who is it suitable for?
This course is for experienced writers of prose or poetry. The product will be early drafts of prose or poetry (not play scripts). Participants should be willing to actively commit to radical approaches to generate creative writing.
Important Information
This course will be held in the Warehouse.
What do I need to bring?
Pens, pencils and paper.
About the tutor
Francis Prendiville taught in Manchester schools before lecturing in Drama in Education at Lancaster University, St Martin’s College and the University of Cumbria. He has co-authored two books on drama as a learning medium before writing the novel ‘Mr Harris Makes It Up.’ His latest project, a collection of short stories and poems, ‘Sixteen by Six’, will be published in June 2026.
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