Speen Festival in collaboration with the Speen & North Dean News present:

A CREATIVE WRITING CHALLENGE
 
Wednesday 6 May 2009
 
Either      6.00-7.30pm    Feast of Food

Or           8.00-9.30pm    Feast of Stars

Venue:    Speen Chapel

Tickets:    £5 in advance from Speen Stores

Book for one workshop only, max 15 places per workshop
For ages 16 upwards

Be inspired by other poets and pick up a tip or two to create your own masterpiece for entry in the Speen & North Dean News Poetry Competition or for display at the Festival Creative-Writing Expo in September. Alternatively, write for your own enjoyment and personal satisfaction! Expertly led by poet and creative-writing teacher Susan Utting and inspired by some Festival themes, this is the first of several FUN participatory events offered to local people by SpeenFest Interactive! as part of Speen Festival 2009. No experience necessary: you don't need to be a great writer or to have even written a rhyming verse in your life! Workshop price includes cheese and wine (served between 7.30-8.00pm) for all participants.
 
Susan Utting is winner of the Peterloo Poetry Prize 2007. Her most recent collection, Houses Without Walls, (Two Rivers Press) was featured in the Independent on Sunday. Her work has won many awards and has twice been short-listed for the Arvon Poetry Prize. Susan runs poetry workshops country-wide and teaches poetry and creative writing at Reading University. She is the founder of Reading's acclaimed Poets' Café and has read and performed her poetry at arts venues and festivals including Edinburgh, StAnza at St Andrew's, Ledbury, and for the Poetry Trust at Aldeburgh 2007.