New Writing Lab .... “Seeing not Looking” held by The New Writing Partnership
At The New Museum of Contemporary Art, King Street Norwich.
Following the success of our first event, New Writing Types in November last year, we would like to inform you of a new writing Lab we are planning. “Seeing not Looking” is for writers of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, and will be held on May 7-8 at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Norwich.
This intensive weekend workshop is also the starting point for a collaborative arts project “Water Ways” which will involve writers working together with visual artists, photographers, architects, environmentalists and others who will be looking at The River Wensum, which runs through Norwich and which has been a central nerve of the city for hundreds of years. In the week following the workshop we will be co-organising a number of free afternoon sessions on the history, the future and the natural environment of the river and the following weekend will see a creative arts workshop (13th. 14th. and 15th.May) where a limited number of invited writers and artists will be generating ideas for public installations and art works for the Water Ways project.
“Seeing not Looking” aims to open up writer’s awareness of place, and to develop different methods of approach and interpretation which will strengthen this aspect of the writers work, whether place is something the writer works with as an implicit aspect of the work, or whether place is the central character and topic.
Sense of place involves understanding the built and natural environment – the urban and the rural – understanding the sense of history – the feeling of texture, materials, colours – the sensuality of place with sounds and smells – the observation of change- animals in their own habitat – the ritualistic everyday – the sense of identity, character and community – seeing the private in the public and the reverse – seeing the theatricality and roles being played out in the public arena.
“Ever since I wrote my novel Waterland, in which the setting plays a big part, I’ve believed that a strong sense of location is vital in telling a story, if only because experience is local and located. We don’t live ‘globally’, our existence is intimately bound up with our familiar ‘neck of the woods’ – places, rooms, neighbourhoods, daily journeys and routines. But by the same token I believe the local is the key to the universal, to what may be true about human nature anywhere. A novelist can perhaps find all he or she needs just round the corner”. Graham Swift in an interview with Penguin Readers Groups.
Participants will get the opportunity to work in small groups with each of our team of Writers in Residence Julia Bell, Candida Clarke, Jeremy Sheldon and Helen Ivory.
The 15 hrs weekend workshop fee is £50.00,not including meals or accommodation. There are no selection criteria, but the tutors would like to know a little of your writing background before you attend.
If you would like to enrol please send a cheque for £50, made out to The New Writing Partnership along with a short biography of your writing life to: The New Writing Partnership, 4-6 Netherconesford, 93-95 King Street, Norwich NR1 1PW.
“SEEING NOT LOOKING”
A weekend of workshops on writing about landscape and place
At The New Museum of Contemporary Art, King Street Norwich
Saturday May 7th
Morning Ways of Seeing: we discuss the process of observation and examine the work of writers renowned for their relationship with place and landscape.
Afternoon You are Here: participants will be given a map of the riverside walk and sent to gather words & descriptions of what they see. This will be followed by a feedback session.
Evening Individual tasks and informal evening.
Sunday May 8th
Morning: Working and Reworking.
Afternoon: Contexts: workshop on the collaborative process.
Writers in Residence:
Candida Clark was born in 1970, graduated from Cambridge in 1993, and has
published novels, poetry, short fiction and journalism in various anthologies, newspapers and magazines; she has also worked as a scriptwriter, TV arts presenter, and was a West Midlands Arts Fellow on the Warwick Writing Programme, ’01. She is currently Arts & Cultures editor for the online current affairs magazine openDemocracy.net, Mentor on the Arvon Foundation’s post-MA masterclass series, lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck, and writing her sixth novel.
Select Bibliography
The Last Look (’98), The Constant Eye (’00), pub. Chatto & Windus; The
Mariner’s Star (’02), Ghost Music (’03); A House of Light (Jan. ’05), pub.
Headline Review.
Jeremy Sheldon's debut novel, The Smiling Affair, will be published by Cape in June 2005. His collection of short stories, The Comfort Zone, was also published by Cape in 2002 and was selected by The Guardian as one of the most exciting debuts of that year. He currently works as a script consultant for Icon Entertainment and as a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London where he leads a seminar in "Genre Writing" and "Narrative". His writing has been described as "intelligent, funny and surprisingly moving".
Julia Bell is a novelist based at Birkbeck, UCL, where she is a Lecturer in Creative Writing on the new MA in Creative Writing. She is the co-author of the best selling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the author of two novels for teenagers , Massive and Lick (Young Picador). She has also co-editied several anthologies of new writing, including England Calling (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and Hard Shoulder (Tindal Street Press). Before moving to London she worked for 7 years at UEA where she established the literary magazine, Pretext, and the small press Pen&inc.
Helen Ivory was born in Luton in 1969, and currently lives in rural Norfolk. She has worked in shops, behind bars and with several thousand free-range hens. She has studied painting and photography and has a Degree in Cultural studies from Norwich School of Art. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Ambit, New Writing 10 and Reactions. Her first collection The Double Life of Clocks was published by Bloodaxe in 2002.
This intensive weekend workshop is also the starting point for a collaborative arts project “Water Ways” which will involve writers working together with visual artists, photographers, architects, environmentalists and others who will be looking at The River Wensum, which runs through Norwich and which has been a central nerve of the city for hundreds of years. In the week following the workshop we will be co-organising a number of free afternoon sessions on the history, the future and the natural environment of the river and the following weekend will see a creative arts workshop (13th. 14th. and 15th.May) where a limited number of invited writers and artists will be generating ideas for public installations and art works for the Water Ways project.
“Seeing not Looking” aims to open up writer’s awareness of place, and to develop different methods of approach and interpretation which will strengthen this aspect of the writers work, whether place is something the writer works with as an implicit aspect of the work, or whether place is the central character and topic.
Sense of place involves understanding the built and natural environment – the urban and the rural – understanding the sense of history – the feeling of texture, materials, colours – the sensuality of place with sounds and smells – the observation of change- animals in their own habitat – the ritualistic everyday – the sense of identity, character and community – seeing the private in the public and the reverse – seeing the theatricality and roles being played out in the public arena.
“Ever since I wrote my novel Waterland, in which the setting plays a big part, I’ve believed that a strong sense of location is vital in telling a story, if only because experience is local and located. We don’t live ‘globally’, our existence is intimately bound up with our familiar ‘neck of the woods’ – places, rooms, neighbourhoods, daily journeys and routines. But by the same token I believe the local is the key to the universal, to what may be true about human nature anywhere. A novelist can perhaps find all he or she needs just round the corner”. Graham Swift in an interview with Penguin Readers Groups.
Participants will get the opportunity to work in small groups with each of our team of Writers in Residence Julia Bell, Candida Clarke, Jeremy Sheldon and Helen Ivory.
The 15 hrs weekend workshop fee is £50.00,not including meals or accommodation. There are no selection criteria, but the tutors would like to know a little of your writing background before you attend.
If you would like to enrol please send a cheque for £50, made out to The New Writing Partnership along with a short biography of your writing life to: The New Writing Partnership, 4-6 Netherconesford, 93-95 King Street, Norwich NR1 1PW.
“SEEING NOT LOOKING”
A weekend of workshops on writing about landscape and place
At The New Museum of Contemporary Art, King Street Norwich
Saturday May 7th
Morning Ways of Seeing: we discuss the process of observation and examine the work of writers renowned for their relationship with place and landscape.
Afternoon You are Here: participants will be given a map of the riverside walk and sent to gather words & descriptions of what they see. This will be followed by a feedback session.
Evening Individual tasks and informal evening.
Sunday May 8th
Morning: Working and Reworking.
Afternoon: Contexts: workshop on the collaborative process.
Writers in Residence:
Candida Clark was born in 1970, graduated from Cambridge in 1993, and has
published novels, poetry, short fiction and journalism in various anthologies, newspapers and magazines; she has also worked as a scriptwriter, TV arts presenter, and was a West Midlands Arts Fellow on the Warwick Writing Programme, ’01. She is currently Arts & Cultures editor for the online current affairs magazine openDemocracy.net, Mentor on the Arvon Foundation’s post-MA masterclass series, lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck, and writing her sixth novel.
Select Bibliography
The Last Look (’98), The Constant Eye (’00), pub. Chatto & Windus; The
Mariner’s Star (’02), Ghost Music (’03); A House of Light (Jan. ’05), pub.
Headline Review.
Jeremy Sheldon's debut novel, The Smiling Affair, will be published by Cape in June 2005. His collection of short stories, The Comfort Zone, was also published by Cape in 2002 and was selected by The Guardian as one of the most exciting debuts of that year. He currently works as a script consultant for Icon Entertainment and as a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London where he leads a seminar in "Genre Writing" and "Narrative". His writing has been described as "intelligent, funny and surprisingly moving".
Julia Bell is a novelist based at Birkbeck, UCL, where she is a Lecturer in Creative Writing on the new MA in Creative Writing. She is the co-author of the best selling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the author of two novels for teenagers , Massive and Lick (Young Picador). She has also co-editied several anthologies of new writing, including England Calling (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and Hard Shoulder (Tindal Street Press). Before moving to London she worked for 7 years at UEA where she established the literary magazine, Pretext, and the small press Pen&inc.
Helen Ivory was born in Luton in 1969, and currently lives in rural Norfolk. She has worked in shops, behind bars and with several thousand free-range hens. She has studied painting and photography and has a Degree in Cultural studies from Norwich School of Art. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Ambit, New Writing 10 and Reactions. Her first collection The Double Life of Clocks was published by Bloodaxe in 2002.
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