In this two-hour workshop with writing tutor, memoirist and beekeeper, Helen Jukes, you'll be given the tools to explore and re-describe a sense of place.
Through a series of short writing exercises taking from memory, literature and the imagination, we’ll experiment with scope and scale, voice and tone.
We’ll ask what place means to us, how we inhabit it, and how we as writers might consider environment not as a background context but an active character — responsive, implicated, and inextricably linked with human life. You’ll also have the opportunity to work towards a longer piece by the end of the session.
No experience necessary. Please feel free (though not obliged!) to bring a short excerpt from a writer who has approached place/setting in ways that inspire you, and/or objects that will help trigger memories of particular places from your past.
Helen Jukes is a writer, beekeeper and writing tutor. Her writing has appeared in BBC Wildlife, Caught by the River, The Junket, Port Magazine and others. Her first book, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, was published in 2018 to wide critical acclaim.
This event is enabled by Simon and Schuster and Great Place: Lakes and Dales, and run in collaboration with Sam Read Bookseller and the Wordsworth Trust.
Date: Wednesday 11 December 2019, 15:00 – 17:00 GMT
Location: The Wordsworth Trust, Learning Space, Town End, Grasmere LA22 9SH
Cost: Free
Places are free but limited, so please book in advance via Eventbrite