Zoom for the last time this summer …..

Readings all round - Pot Luck

Mandy will host the first half with any character homework pieces

Barbara will close the term with a Pot Luck session of favourite pieces from this year of

Waterside Writers 2019 - 2020

AGM

It is hope that by the Autumn, George will be back in charge - there might be an AGM to organise??

Zoom Time

Mike will lead the first half of the session introducing any homework writing from his session on

interpretation and intertextuality

Mandy will lead the second half of the session and this will be a Workshop on Character

Zoom Time

Stan will lead the first half introducing the homework poems

Mike will lead the second half on interpretation and intertextuality:

In preparation for the session familiarise your self with Ode to a Nightingale Keats

and the novel Tender is the Night F Scott Fitzgerald

Zoom:

First half - Monica will host readings from ‘Where to start a story’ (10:30 - 11:10)

Second half - Stan will host a poetry writing workshop (11:15 - 12:00)

Zoom time again

First Half Barbara- Readings around the theme Impact: (formatting, shaping, inventing, placing, spacing)

Second Half Monica will lead the session on Every Picture Tells a Story

Judith and Holofernes

Judith and Holofernes, fresco painted by Michelangelo (1508-1512)

Donatello, Judith and Holofernes, 1455–1460

Gustav Klimt, Judith 1; Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1901

Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c.1599

Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Slaying Holofernes painting  c.1612

The Canterbury Tales (c.1390) The Monks Tale De Oloferno  Geoffrey Chaucer

Judith (1994) Vicki Feaver

Zoom Time

Zoom Session 23 April 2020

Readings

Paul Fisher – It was a quiet morning in September – feedback/help

Peter Thorpe – Wake Up Call The Guided Tour

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Barbara’s Session: Impact: (formatting, shaping, inventing, placing, spacing)

The following readings followed by discussion:

maggie and milly and molly and may (Monica)

Chansons Innocentes: I (Barbara)

Spring is like a perhaps hand (Stan)

Live each season (Mary)

Emerson, a proverb, Hokushi (Paul)

Earth Wisdom (Claire)

Pine Tree Tops (Mike)

And …. two to leave you with:

Night Song of the Fish

All The Little Hoofprints

Zoom trial

you will be invited by Barbara to join the session

Bring a favourite poem or short Flash Fiction to read in the session and be ready to defend your choice!

This can be original self-written or by a published author. Please confirm to Barbara in advance whether you will be joining the event. You can attend in pyjamas but you must wear something!

Long Read followed by A new theme Where to start a story introduced by Monica - Postponed

New Session: First half - Sion (chairing the read out of his homework ‘exposition’). Second half Creative Workshop led by George (with Easter eggs?)

First half - Readings led by Kathryn.

Second half - Sion will lead a discussion around ‘exposition’ Thanks Sion! 

Guest speaker Ed Harris. Writing for theatre and radio.

Ed is an award-winning playwright and poet. He has been Chichester Theatre’s Writer in Residence, and his Radio 4 comedy series, Dot, has recently been re-commissioned for a third series.