Workshop: Celebrating Life Stories

Book this workshop with Paul Burston’s Workshop: What’s Your Story (Saturday 9 May at 1.30pm) and save! Just choose the option of both workshops when you purchase your ticket.

Celebrating Your Life Stories – with compelling writing is a fun, uplifting and life-affirming workshop, to introduce you to creative non-fiction writing. All welcome (age 16+), no previous writing experience required.

With Juliet Thomas - Creative Coach, & Founder of From Seed To Sky - Nurturing ideas into powerful realities...

Juliet is passionate about encouraging everyone to tap into their inner creativity and thereby improve mental health, foster new skills, create connections, build confidence and feel proud of trying something new.

Let's celebrate together

Too often we look back on our life and think about the tough parts, the challenges we have gotten through and whilst these are important, defining moments, what about the good parts, the celebratory moments, the parts that bring us pure joy? In this session we will pause to reflect and celebrate these moments, writing and expressing your story, your way, as part of the celebrations of 20th anniversary of Huddersfield Literature Festival!

We will be exploring creative non-fiction writing to share your story

This specific, up-and-coming genre, allows you to tell your truthful story in the most engaging and colourful way. It’s factually accurate writing that’s presented in a compelling, imaginative, and narrative style.

This 2-hour workshop will include:

• Intro to creative non-fiction writing, sharing some published examples

• Ice breaker in partners - share a joyous moment to each other in one intriguing sentence

• Take a truthful joyous micro moment and write about it in no more than 250 words

• Take a truthful celebratory major memory and begin a blog, article,or a bigger project with this memory

• Sharing your writing pieces (only if you are comfortable doing so)

• Refreshments

You will leave:

• Happy that you have given yourself the gift of some creative writing time

• Having taken the time to focus on the positives in life, the special moments that make you smile

• Uplifted from a creative afternoon, where you have achieved unique, personal pieces of writing to feel proud of

You can find out more about Juliet @fromseed_tosky on Instagram

Saturday 9 May

11am-1pm

Amped, 29 Zetland St, HD1 2RD

£12 (£10 conc), free for essential carers accompanying a ticket holder

Age guidance: 16+

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