Ice Age inspired Creative Writing Workshop - 4 week course

Event information

Join Flis Tattersall for a series of four 2.5 workshops to inspire and support you to create your own writing using poetry and prose. Fully immerse yourself in the Ice Age Exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum, and use the stories, images and historic objects to inspire and develop your creative writing skills.

These workshops will offer plenty of opportunities for your imagination to flourish using playful exercises to realise the landscape as a personality; as well as fighting frostbite, crossing crevasses and seafaring in sub zero temperatures if you so desire. We will also explore the techniques of celebrated nature writers such as Robert Macfarlane, Nan Shepherd and Barry Lopez. Come and be amazed at what you can produce. Expect a warm, relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.

All materials provided. Participants welcome to use their own devices for writing if preferred.

The sessions will include:

Starting points and developing ideas: using the museum to trigger ideas (Week One)
How to craft a convincing settings: Ice Age exhibition (Week Two)
Nature writing (Week Three)
Character arcs and satisfying endings. (Week Four).

Those who want to share their creative writing pieces will be encouraged to do so with the museum who will share with their social media following.

About the Tutor

Flis Tattersall is a playwright, writes short stories and for children. Her first children’s book ‘Cornish Mice and the Treasure Garden’ was published by TorMark in 2021. She has undertaken writing commissions for the Writer’s Block in Cornwall, the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust, and the War Ephemera Project. Flis has been running creative workshops for the past six years, with partners including the Royal Cornwall Museum (‘The Magical Realism in the Museum' project), the University of Exeter, Swindon Literary Festival, Falmouth festival and Devizes museum. She is currently working on an Arts Council funded project in Swindon working with young women aged 14-25 to write and produce a new play about contemporary and historic female experience in the town. (www.felicitytattersall.co.uk)

Suitable for all abilities and levels of experience.

Each session will run from 10:30am - 1pm on the following dates:

• Friday 20 June
• Friday 27 June
• Friday 4 July
• Friday 11 July

Please note this event must meet our minimum number requirements in order to run. If we do not meet this requirement you will be notified at least a week prior to the start of the course and issued with a full refund including the booking fee.