Every body has a story; what’s yours?

With Quinn Eades, learn how to write from (rather than about) the body. Discuss the ethics and politics of life writing, techniques for writing trauma, the ways that writing stories from ‘other’ bodies can broaden minds and promote social change, and most importantly, put that all to the page.

Participants will be given a series of writing exercises, some of them set to music, in order to produce their own embodied text. We will have time to play with the writing produced using a range of creative and experimental techniques.

Learning Outcomes:
You will improve your writing skill-set through practical exercises and group discussions in the key areas listed below:
Critical and literary terminology in relation to bodies and writing
How to think differently about ways to write the body
Productivity techniques for writing
How to have conversations ‘with’ rather than ‘about’ theory
New ways to articulate life stories
Experimental writing techniques including cut-ups, blackout poetry, playing with white space, and exquisite corpse