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Friday 7th November

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Session: 09:00 - 09:20

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Room 1 - 09:00 - 09:20

Welcome - Opening Speaker

Naomi Alderman

Session: 09:25 - 09:55

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Room 1 - 09:25 - 09:55

Poetry as a Facilitator of Conversation in Safe Spaces

Gill Connors

Session: 09:25 - 10:25

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Room 2 - 09:25 - 10:25

Creative autumn: a writing and drawing workshop

Heather Richardson

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Room 3 - 09:25 - 10:25

Think, Feel, Write: What do humans offer that AI never can?

Jennie Dayes and Catherine Wilcox

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Room 4 - 09:25 - 10:25

Telling Stories with Text Games: Teaching Interactive Fiction

Lauren O'Donoghue

Session: 10:00 - 10:30

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Room 1 - 10:00 - 10:30

Rediscovering the True Discoverer of Photography Through the Historical Biographical Novel

Caroline Summerfield

Session: 10:35 - 11:05

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Room 1 - 10:35 - 11:05

Behind every great idea there stands an author: Writers & what inspires them

Dina Kafiris

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Room 2 - 10:35 - 11:05

Making Connections: Creative Collaboration in Writing

Jo Carrington and Petra Mansour

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Room 3 - 10:35 - 11:05

Inspirational Safety: A Mindful Approach to Safeguarding for Creative Writing Teachers

Francis Gilbert

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Room 4 - 10:35 - 11:05

Create your own story dice using free cultural heritage from Europeana.eu

Beth Daley

Session: 11:20 - 11:50

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Room 1 - 11:20 - 11:50

Translating Plus

Liz Cashdan

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Room 2 - 11:20 - 11:50

The Process of Poetry: how do leading contemporary poets craft their work?

Rosanna McGlone

Session: 11:20 - 12:20

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Room 3 - 11:20 - 12:20

How to Bring Silences Into Your Work

Eve Grubin

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Room 4 - 11:20 - 12:20

Letters to the Sea

Rosemarie Corlett, Samantha Carr, Jo Higson

Session: 11:55 - 12:25

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Room 1 - 11:55 - 12:25

Joint Session: Rewilding

1) Rewilding the Creative Process – Seasonality and Creative Writing - Alison Taft
2) Rewild Your Writing: affect, eco-resistance, and offline pedagogy - Kevan Manwaring

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Room 2 - 11:55 - 12:25

Joint Session: Perspective

1) The Mother Of All Theatres – a creative critical response to Bernardine Evaristo's 'Girl, Woman, Other' - Helen Williams
2) How does perspective inspire and dictate the story? - Pawel Kuziemski

Session: 13:25 - 13:55

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Room 2 - 13:25 - 13:55

Joint Session: Inspiring

1) Inspiring Community Anthology Writing - Fiona Linday
2) How can interdisciplinary approaches support access to creative writing for hard to reach young people? - Adam Kammerling

Session: 13:25 - 14:25

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Room 3 - 13:25 - 14:25

Writing With Negative Space

Peter McAllister and Kate Horsley

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Room 4 - 13:25 - 14:25

How to use family history to write speculative fiction

Sonya Hundal

Session: 14:00 - 14:30

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Room 1 - 14:00 - 14:30

Writers in Residence: Developing Creativity and Writing with Unpaid Family Carers

Shelley Tracey

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Room 2 - 14:00 - 14:30

Going Global: inspiring writing – and writers – through internationalisation

James Draper

Session: 14:45 - 15:15

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Room 1 - 14:45 - 15:15

Paratopia and How to Find It

Chris Rose

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Room 2 - 14:45 - 15:15

The Joy of finding a Voice: Writing and publishing with recovering addicts in Great Yarmouth

Belona Greenwood

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Room 4 - 14:45 - 15:15

Creative Empathy: Empathic Creativity

Felicity James and Helen Foster

Session: 14:45 - 15:45

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Room 3 - 14:45 - 15:45

Climate Writing with Form

Jocelyn Page

Session: 15:20 - 15:50

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Room 1 - 15:20 - 15:50

Prompting Inspiration: The art of the educational writing prompt

Helen Kenwright

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Room 2 - 15:20 - 15:50

The Use of Questions and Pauses as Feedback on Creative Writing in the Narrative Coaching Process

esme mills

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Room 4 - 15:20 - 15:50

Welcome to the Rooming House

Tyler Keevil

Session: 15:55 - 16:25

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Room 1 - 15:55 - 16:25

Behind Creativity

Oliver Harris

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Room 2 - 15:55 - 16:25

Speculative Frequencies: can poetry support cultural & heritage partners in delivering impactful education and lifelong learning activities?

Briony Hughes

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Room 4 - 15:55 - 16:25

Using Creative Writing for Social Good: Creative writing as a tool for positive change

Emma McKenzie

Session: 15:55 - 16:55

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Room 3 - 15:55 - 16:55

Stimulating Texts for Found Poetry: A Register-Based Exploration of Writing Inspiration

Yuka Nakai

Session: 16:30 - 17:00

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Room 1 - 16:30 - 17:00

Myth, Memory, and the Poetic Unearthing of History

Jumoke Verissimo and Saddiq Dzukogi

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Room 2 - 16:30 - 17:00

Sustaining Inspiration, Not a Fleeting Thing

Cindy Shearer

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Room 4 - 16:30 - 17:00

Creative Writing at the NHS: Collective Voice and the Care of NHS Workers

Siobhan Campbell and Mel McEvoy

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