adult education

  • Freelance

I work freelance, running workshops and courses in various aspects of creative writing or poetry. I can design sessions to suit the needs of any group. For example, you may want to look at poetry forms such as sonnets, or understand and practice skills in writing contemporary poems, or learn more theory about effective narrative skills, or plot development in fiction-writing.

I can also design sessions to suit specific themes: for example, nature writing, or writing in response to a particular landscape or issue.

Costs vary, depending on the size and nature of your organisation, location, etc. Please contact me to enquire, and to book: lucy.write.act@mail.com

  •  For the WEA

I also work as a tutor for the Workers Educational Association, primarily teaching two eight week courses in creative writing and poetry. It is called ‘Wild Words’, based on the idea that the ‘wild mind’ or the unconscious creative self is the source of creative flow: ideas, visions, insights and authentic self expression.

The connection between the unconscious mind and effective expression in fiction, poetry, and any other genre, is a love of language and confident knowledge about how to use it effectively. So whether a learner wants to develop skills in a specific genre or just explore what they are able and what they enjoy, Wild Words is a good place to begin.

The first eight week course is for beginners, and the second for those with some previous experience or who want to continue after the first course has ended.

Wild Words has run successfully since autumn 2008 and many of my previous learners have gone on to have work published, or to perform, or to study further. Some come back and take the courses more than once,they enjoy the process so much!

Booking for Wild Word courses: WEA (Exeter Branch)  http://www.wea.org.uk/

  • For The Husbandry School

I am looking forward to running several one-day sessions on the themes of Landscape and Environment at The Husbandry School, Devon, in 2012. The programme will not be finalised until early in 2012.