Writing Sound And Vision

Excite your Writing with 'Sound & Vision'

Join us for a fun writing workshop exploring sound and vision in your writing. Aboard Bristol’s historic John Sebastian Lightship moored in Bathurst Basin, central Bristol Harbourside.

 Suitable all writers. 

Within our workshop expect to journey with writing prompts, music clips and original images..

Plenty of time to write fuelled by tea, coffee and cake.

Do you write with lively imagery, sounds popping off the page?

Is your writing inspired by imagery, films, songs and visuals. 

Explore different ways of using your senses, writing prompts, soundscapes and original photographs to journey your writing. Time to write and no pressure to share.

The day at a glance

- Welcome and introduction to the session.

- Free write.

- Guided write with imagination prompts.

- What and where inspires sound and vision in your writing, stories, songs, films, travel... 

- How to tap into your synaesthesic writer.

Your chance to ask questions about how to take your writing further (such as performance or publication), and share feedback on the day’s experiences.

The ship has steep stairs, so please let us know on the email address below if you have access needs. [email protected]

Suitable for all writers. 

About your hosts

Helen Sheppard is a Bristol based writer and worked as a midwife. Her poetry explores themes of birth, health loss, and those whose voices are often unheard. She started to write in her forties during a ‘kick start your reading’ class. Co-runs Satellite of Love Spoken Word Events and Wordsmiths.

Helen’s work has been Published widely, including These are the Hands NHS, Tools of the Trade – Poems for New Doctors, Under the Radar, Ink Sweat & Tears, Hippocrates Prize

Her debut  poetry collection 'Fontanelle' published 2021 Burning Eye Books. 

She has performed at various events including Milk Poetry, RTB, Torriano Meeting House and Harvard Medical School and Nuyorican Poetry Cafe.

Helen interviews extraordinary poets for her podcast Health Beat Poets, their ‘take’ on Poetry, Health and Community.

Social media 

Twitter HelenSheppard7

Instagram helensheppard58 

Marius Grose 

Marius studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic graduating in 1981 with a BA Hons degree in sculpture. He then made a career shift into broadcast television, becoming a freelance editor working on factual entertainment shows, documentaries and feature films.  

Marius has written screenplays for film, television and stage. Since 2016 he has been writing poetry and reading his work at open mic nights and online. He has had poems published in the literary arts journal Dream Catcher,192 Ezine, Allegro Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, Dreich and The Storms. Marius was shortlisted for The White Review’s annual poetry competition 2023

Marius’s poetry films and photographs can be found at photography.mariusgrose.co.uk

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