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 […]
Hitler Youth cadet Jojo Betzler firmly believes in the ideals of Nazism manifested by his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler. However, his foundations are shaken when he finds a Jewish girl in his house. -- What to expect at Awesome P&SPR Club? The zoom is informal and relaxed. No one is put on the spot. We […]
SQUAD 10, MANCHESTER - VENUE TBC Andrew’s third and latest collection, pandemonium, is an extraordinary raw exploration of fracture and distance, of the mind and the body in trouble. Andrew says, “one of the things I realise pandemonium one is trying to do is discover how to make the internal, the emotional, visible in a […]
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 […]
ZOOM, OPEN ALL SQUADS This workshop looks at the thematic boundaries of poetry – the gnarly, uncomfortable edges – and asks how we can write about things that are inherently unpoetic. There’s a tension between being gratuitously unpleasant vs. making good art that says the unsaid. We’re going to think about where that line is […]
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC In this workshop, we take Mark's ten questions and apply them to your favourite films, films you hated and some movie classics. Whatever your genre, the ten tests Mark takes you through can be applied to any form of writing – scripts, novels, short stories and even longer narrative […]
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 […]
One of the squad's 3 Awesome Reading groups - designed to think about how we can read as writers. If you want to join us, then here's what you need to know: We will be reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The text can be bought here. The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac […]
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC A workshop in bookmaking, writing and play with Stevie Ronnie. We will be discussing the materiality of books and what affect a book’s material aspects can have on the way the reader experiences our words. We'll consider the benefits and drawbacks for writers of producing and distributing your own […]