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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200528
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: POETRY COMMISSIONS POEMS BACK TO WRITER
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URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/deadline-poerty-commissions-poems-back-to-writer/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200522T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200515T183207Z
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SUMMARY:50 WAYS TO BE A BETTER POET with Roger Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Open to poets in Squads 1-9. \nA fast paced workshop filled with tips\, quotes and prompts to level up your poetry practice. For poets who want to refresh their poetry on the page and explore how we combine inspiration\, commitment and productivity to balance earning a living and being an artist in a complex changing world. \nRoger is a writer and performer who divides his time between London and Trinidad and is a co-founder of Spoke Lab and Malika’s Kitchen. His latest collection\, A Portable Paradise from Peepal Tree Press won the TS Eliot and the Michael Ondjaate Prizes and has recently been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize. \nYou will be sent a Zoom invite on the morning of the workshop with a link to click to join in. \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/50-ways-to-be-a-better-poet-with-roger-robinson/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200520T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200520T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200508T075358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T182759Z
UID:7712-1589995800-1589999400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:POETS MINIGOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-minigoals-session/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200521
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T105015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T105015Z
UID:7676-1589932800-1590019199@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:DEADLINE: POETRY COMMISSIONS TO PARTNER
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/deadline-poetry-commissions-to-partner/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200519T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200519T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200508T075258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T182928Z
UID:7710-1589909400-1589913000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:PROSE WRITERS MINIGOALS SESSIONS
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on prose writers\, there are other groups for poets and scriptwriters. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-writers-minigoals-sessions/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200519T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200519T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T131136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T131136Z
UID:7689-1589898600-1589904000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:NONE OF IT'S REAL
DESCRIPTION:Open to all writers\, commentators and critics Squad 1-9. \nTheatre is what happens when a bunch of people choose to play pretend in the same room together. Why do critics take it all so seriously? Join James to explore writing reviews about the things we feel in our heads\, the things people do on stages\, and the fundamental daftness of art. \nJames is a Squad grad\, writer and theatre maker based in Manchester. He sporadically manages a blog of cultural criticism at www.jamesvarney.uk and has written reviews for The Real Story\, Exeunt and The Stage. \nYou will be sent a Zoom invite on the morning of the workshop with a link to click to join in. \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/none-of-its-real/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200518T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200518T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200515T182711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T182711Z
UID:7753-1589823000-1589826600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SCRIPTWRITERS MINIGOALS
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on scriptwriters\, there are other groups for poets 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/scriptwriters-minigoals/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200516T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200516T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T131055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T131055Z
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SUMMARY:SHINY HAPPY PLAYWRIGHTS
DESCRIPTION:Open to theatre writers from all Squads 1-9 \nA one-off workshop exploring earnestness\, warmth and the ‘feel good’. Through reading\, discussion and exercises\, we’ll think about writing hopefully\, moments of kindness\, and ideally have a laugh. All levels of experience welcome (though no cool kids allowed). \nBillie is a Squad grad\, playwright and screenwriter from Merseyside. Her play Too Much World At Once was written on attachment with Box of Tricks Theatre as part of their 2019-2020 PlayBox residency\, and received a rehearsed reading at HOME in Manchester. She is currently developing a short film with the young people of the Television Workshop Salford. Her first play\, Spiders\, was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2015\, debuted in Cambridge in 2017\, before being performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre\, London\, in August 2018. \nYou will be sent a Zoom invite on the morning of the workshop with a link to click to join in. \n\nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/shiny-happy-playwrights/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200514T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200514T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T131010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T131010Z
UID:7685-1589466600-1589472000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:I WANT TO BE A COW
DESCRIPTION:Open to all poets Squads 1-9. \nIn this workshop\, we will be reading fun and fantastically silly poems by Sharon Olds\, Frank O’Hara\, and Selima Hill\, among others\, and attempting to write funny poems of our own\, through a series of exercises focusing on puns\, rhyme\, and voice. \nThere is plenty of talk about the necessity of poetry in this difficult time\, poems that rise to the occasion and bear witness. However\, there is also a need for funny poems: poems that surprise us\, delight us\, and most importantly\, make us laugh. We need to laugh. \nThe workshop aims to be fun\, and might even be funny. \nEmily is a Squad grad and poet in York\, currently writing her MA dissertation on butch poetics. She has competed in the Roundhouse and BBC Fringe poetry slams\, and has poems published in Poetry Birmingham and The Kindling. Her poetry focuses on family\, queerness\, and the body. She runs a regular poetry workshop at the University of York\, and enjoys constructive criticism more than you’d think possible. \nYou will be sent a Zoom invite on the morning of the workshop with a link to click to join in. \n\nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/i-want-to-be-a-cow/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200511T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200511T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200508T075125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T075125Z
UID:7707-1589218200-1589221800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SCRIPTWRITERS MINIGOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on scriptwriters\, there are other groups for poets 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/scriptwriters-minigoals-session/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200509T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200509T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T130919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T130919Z
UID:7683-1589034600-1589040000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:ALEX PRAGER STORIES
DESCRIPTION:A workshop open to all Squads 1-9 and people telling stories any form. \nWe will each write our own stories gently guided by a mixture of Alex Prager’s wonderful photographs and other prompts\, some for everyone\, some just for you. \nAn hour plus to write alone together\, with new prompts dropped in regularly throughout and some time for sharing at the end\, but only if you want to. \nWhen not running the Squad Steve write’s short stories\, has been Writer In Residence at Bluewater Shopping Centre and the Wakefield Literature Festival. www.stevedearden.com \nYou will be sent a Zoom invite on the morning of the workshop with a link to click to join in. \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/alex-prager-stories/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200506T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200506T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T094137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T094137Z
UID:7673-1588786200-1588791600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:POETS MINI GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-session-4/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200505T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200505T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181626Z
UID:7592-1588707000-1588712400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:STILL LIVES 3
DESCRIPTION:In these sessions we will collaboratively create short pieces of writing\, building on personal experience/observations led by Lydia Allison. \nWe will focus on everyday\, domestic challenges and observations. Topics will include plans which get cancelled\, things you see day to day in your house\, and internalised arguments about what you believe is the right thing to do in relation to every day activities. \nYou will be asked to imagine outside perspectives looking in at your lives\, swap and stories\, adopt another voice\, write individually at first and then collectively in threes.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/still-lives-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200505T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T094040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T094040Z
UID:7670-1588699800-1588705200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:PROSE WRITERS MINI GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on prose writers\, there are other groups for poets and scriptwriters. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-writers-mini-goals-session-4/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200504T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200504T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200501T093938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T093953Z
UID:7665-1588613400-1588618800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SCRIPTWRITERS MINIGOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on scriptwriters\, there are other groups for poets 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/scriptwriters-minigolas-session/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200501T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181658Z
UID:7590-1588361400-1588366800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:STILL LIVES 2
DESCRIPTION:In these sessions we will collaboratively create short pieces of writing\, building on personal experience/observations led by Lydia Allison. \nWe will focus on everyday\, domestic challenges and observations. Topics will include plans which get cancelled\, things you see day to day in your house\, and internalised arguments about what you believe is the right thing to do in relation to every day activities. \nYou will be asked to imagine outside perspectives looking in at your lives\, swap and stories\, adopt another voice\, write individually at first and then collectively in threes.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/still-lives-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200429T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200429T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200427T112745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T112745Z
UID:7609-1588181400-1588185000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:POETS MINI GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-session-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200428T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200428T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181743Z
UID:7588-1588102200-1588107600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:STILL LIVES 1
DESCRIPTION:In these sessions we will collaboratively create short pieces of writing\, building on personal experience/observations led by Lydia Allison. \nOpen to all Squads to writers in any genre. Please only sign up below if you can make all three. They will be on Zoom and you will be sent a link on the morning of each workshop. \nWe will focus on everyday\, domestic challenges and observations. Topics will include plans which get cancelled\, things you see day to day in your house\, and internalised arguments about what you believe is the right thing to do in relation to every day activities. \nYou will be asked to imagine outside perspectives looking in at your lives\, swap and stories\, adopt another voice\, write individually at first and then collectively in threes.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/still-lives-1/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200428T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200428T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200427T113006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T113006Z
UID:7616-1588095000-1588098600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:PROSE WRITERS MINI GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on prose writers\, there are other groups for poets and scriptwriters. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-writers-mini-goals-session-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200427T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200427T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200427T112905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T112911Z
UID:7613-1588008600-1588012200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SCRIPTWRITERS MINI GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on scriptwriters\, there are other groups for poets 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/scriptwriters-mini-golas-session/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200408T125216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200408T125216Z
UID:7573-1587754800-1587760200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:ZINE WORKSHOP with Lauren Vevers
DESCRIPTION:Join Squad grad Lauren Vevers for a relaxing evening of zine making in your own home. \nYou’ll be sent a simple list of materials to gather\, be invited to do a bit of writing\, we will have a quick overview of zines\, instructions on how to make a simple zine format\, then time to make and chat\, with a sharing at the end. \nNever tried before\, please try this at home! \nYou will be sent a Zoom link before the workshop\, along with a simple list of things you might want to have to hand.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/zine-workshop-with-lauren-vevers/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200425
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181901Z
UID:7596-1587686400-1587772799@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SQUAD 10 SELECTION MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Times TBC
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/squad-10-selection-meeting/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200423T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200423T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181205Z
UID:7586-1587650400-1587655800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:RAINBOW RAINBOW RAINBOW 3
DESCRIPTION:Responding to the queer canon through reflection\, discussion and poetry writing prompts led by Louise Essex. \nWorkshop 3  \nQueer Narratives/ Queer Silence \n– comparing openly queer poetry with silenced queer poets \n– exploring queer silence and what it means today \n– ‘what makes a poem queer?’ \n– ‘do we want to “queer” our poems purposefully? Why?’ \n– ‘do we ever feel “not queer enough”?’ \n– writing our queerness (coming out poems etc.)
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/rainbow-rainbow-rainbow-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200422T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200422T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T103349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T103349Z
UID:7577-1587562200-1587569400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:BOARD MEETING
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/board-meeting/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200420T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200420T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T181049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T181049Z
UID:7584-1587391200-1587396600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:RAINBOW RAINBOW RAINBOW 2
DESCRIPTION:Responding to the queer canon through reflection\, discussion and poetry writing prompts. Led by Louise Essex. \nWorkshop 2  \nWriting in Response to the Queer Canon cont. \n– Queer 19th Century poets (Edward Lear\, Christina Rossetti\, Walt Whitman) \n– Queer Modernism (Virginia Woolf\, Elizabeth Bishop\, Allen Ginsberg) \n– rewriting queer symbols
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/rainbow-rainbow-rainbow-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200417T235900
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200417T235900
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200403T102648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200403T104639Z
UID:7541-1587167940-1587167940@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:A Diary of Windows Video Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Concept \nThe idea began from a conversation with Steve about doing something digital and collaborative during the lockdown that is open to the entire squad. I then began to think about how we\, as a group of writers dispersed across the planet\, could make a collective creative response to our very different\, yet very similar situations. This led me to an idea for a video diary piece that uses a format inspired by Christian Marclay’s 24-hour artwork “The Clock”. For those of you who don’t know it – it is a montage of film and television clips that have clocks in them that is ordered chronologically over a day. Then\, at the squad’s first Distance Social meeting last week\, we discussed how the small things we observe around us might be more interesting as a subject for our writing than the virus. At the same zoom meeting Louise Essex also commented that “We all have windows.” The concept for A Diary of Windows and Small Things is based on a combination of these three ideas. \nContribution Guidelines \nI am inviting each of you to create a short piece of observational writing (in any form that you choose). This writing should then be recorded as a voice over in a one minute video of the view from your window. Each piece will be made a particular time of day that is assigned at random and should be accompanied by a 5 second video clip of a clock that shows your assigned time of day. I will combine the contributions into a single film that will be published online through the Squad’s existing (and planned) digital channels. \nIf you’d like to take part\, then please email me at stevie@stevieronnie.com by Tuesday 7th April. I will then allocate everyone with a specific time of day at random. \nYou will then have until Friday the 17th of April to send me the following two videos (via wetransfer\, dropbox or similar): \n(1) A 5 second clip of a clock showing your allocated time of day and; \n(2) A 1-minute shot of the view from your window which includes audio of you reading your short piece of observational writing. \nThe videos should be shot using a mobile phone in landscape format at the specific time of day that you have been allocated. I will be at hand to assist with any technical queries throughout. \nStevie Ronnie\nSquad Core Team
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/a-diary-of-windows-video-deadline/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200408T122243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200408T122441Z
UID:7569-1587063600-1587070800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SPOKEN WORD SALON
DESCRIPTION:The Spoken Word Salon is an informal\, virtual open-mic night\, with the opportunity to meet other Squad writers and practise reading / performing your work – of any form and genre – in a supportive space\, with the option of feedback. The writing does not need to be a final product or learnt by heart\, and there is no competitive element\, just a cosy sharing of work. We are looking forward to welcoming you to a fun and creative Friday night. Hosted by Liz Gibson. \nThis event will take place on Zoom\, you will be mailed a secure link on the morning of the event. \nTo sign up got to the link below
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/spoken-word-salon/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200416T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200416T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194701
CREATED:20200409T180830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T180909Z
UID:7580-1587045600-1587049200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:RAINBOW RAINBOW RAINBOW 1
DESCRIPTION:Responding to the queer canon through reflection\, discussion and poetry writing prompts. Led by Louise Essex. \nOpen to all Squads for female identifying poets\, 8 places. Please only sign up below if you can make all three workshops. They will take place on Zoom\, you will be sent a link on the morning of each workshop. \nWorkshop 1 – Thursday 16th April 14:00-15.30pm \nWriting in Response to the Queer Canon \n-Sappho and what we can learn \n– Queering myths & legends
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/rainbow-rainbow-rainbow-1/
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SUMMARY:POETS MINI-GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on poets\, there are other groups for prose and script 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. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-session-2/
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SUMMARY:PROSE WRITERS MINI-GOALS SESSION
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. \nWe are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to all Squad members with a focus on prose writers\, there are other groups for poets and scriptwriters. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-writers-mini-goals-session-2/
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