The Writing Squad

POETS MINI GOALS
2021-08-25 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-18 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-11 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-04 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | Online
We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones.
This is open to Squad 1-9. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting, you are welcome to join, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come.
You will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.

PROSE MINI GOALS
2021-08-24 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-17 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-10 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Online

SQUAD 10 MINI GOALS
2021-08-23 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-07-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Setting goals and sharing recommendations. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.

SCRIPT MINI GOALS
2021-08-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-08-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Online

SFF MINI GOALS
2021-08-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Online

SHORT STORY: FIRST DRAFT, FIRST EDIT with Leone Ross
2021-07-31 14:00 - 16:00
An uncompromising workshop in which Leone will explore how to edit the first draft of a short story and offer some hard golden rules that will last you forever and invite a lifelong relationship with the underlying idea. An hour of listening hard, an hour of activity.

Step Change: Applying to DYCP 2
2021-07-29 19:00 - 21:00
NOTE: By signing up to this Eventbrite, you are confirming attendance to BOTH sessions involved. The first on 1st July (7-9pm), the second on 29th July (7-9pm).
Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) is Arts Council England’s funding scheme that aims to provide financial support to individual artists in order to facilitate a step change in their career. In this workshop successful DYCP applicant, Stevie will help you to think strategically about your career as an artist and help you to consider how DYCP funding could best support you in achieving your aims. DYCP is a very competitive funding programme and while it is important to note that attending this workshop will not necessarily guarantee you success in the application process, the aim will be to increase your chances of writing a strong application with support from Stevie and the other workshop participants.

POETS MINI GOALS
2021-07-28 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-07-14 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-07-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half.
We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones.
This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on poets, there are other groups for script and prose writers. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting, you are welcome to join, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come.
You will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.

PROSE MINI GOALS
2021-07-27 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-07-13 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-07-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half.
We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones.
This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on prose, there are other groups for script and poetry writers. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting, you are welcome to join, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come.
You will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.

FLARF 2021 with Lenni Sanders
2021-07-22 19:30 - 21:00
Flarf poetry – which uses found text from internet sources and plays with intentional ugliness and daftness – was on the up 20 years ago. The internet was a very different place. What does it feel like to write flarf now? The raw materials are different. Are we saying different things?
In this workshop we will play around with text, incorporating the aesthetic, language and moods of the internet, creating new writing that may feel jarring, silly, repetitive, knowing, sly, exuberant, or all of the above. We will draw inspiration from unexpected places, and make ourselves laugh.

Awesome Poetry - Terrance Hayes
2021-07-22 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
One of the very best ways to become a better writer is to read widely and thoughtfully. Building on Emma and Matt’s great work in establishing the Awesome Play Text / Screenplay Reading Club, and Francesca’s prose club, Malika and Stevie are hosting the Awesome Poetry Reading Club to focus on how we can read as writers.
If you want to join us, then here’s what you need to know:
This session will focus on Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. The book is available to be bought online.
“In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country’s past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered – the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.”

AWESOME PROSE READING CLUB
2021-07-20 18:00 - 19:30
One of the squad’s 3 Awesome Reading groups – designed to think about how we can read as writers. We will be reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s novella This is How You Lose the Time War – an epic love story spanning time and space.

SCRIPT MINI GOALS
2021-07-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Online

SQUAD 10 WANDER - LEEDS
2021-07-17 11:00 - 15:00
At last we meet! Two opportunities for you Squad 10 writers to meet us and each other – one in Manchester, one in Leeds. Not a workshop more of a gentle wander, but we will do the things writers do, look, take notes, do some thinking, some writing, maybe even share what we come up with. Plenty of talking too, and a chance to have your first taste of a Squad Day! All outside, social but distanced, meeting up and ending up near the railway station. Bring your mask and your own lunch and whatever it is you write with/on.

SFF MINI GOALS
2021-07-12 05:30 - 07:00 | Online
Mini Goals for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers with Francesca. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.

SCRIPT MINI GOALS
2021-07-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half.
We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones.
This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on script writers, there are other groups for poetry and prose writers. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting, you are welcome to join, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come.
You will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.

THE HOME CONCERT 2
2021-07-04 20:30 - 22:00
Join us for The Home Concert, a Squad open mic for musicians, songwriters and spoken word folk. Hosted by Squad 8’s Louise Essex, we’ll spend an hour listening and appreciating all things aural. Come to share your stuff or sit back and enjoy!
If you want a slot contact Louise via bille@writingsquad.com with the subject line Home Concert before the 4th.

SQUAD 10 WANDER - MANCHESTER
2021-07-03 11:00 - 15:00
