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Monthly Writing Workshops in the western Algarve
All welcome
Writing Workshops are held on the last Saturday of every month at
the Bica Boa, Estrada de Lisboa 266,
Monchique
Dates for summer 2011: 30 April, 28 May, 25 June, 30 July
2.00 – 3.30pm – Writing Fiction
Coffee break
3.45 – 5.15pm – Writing Memoirs
Cost: €15 for both workshops, € 10 for one – including feedback on
500 words.
If
you have ever wanted to write stories either of your own life, or
others, or simply make them up, this is the place to come!
Writing Memoirs/Life Writing
Have
you ever wanted to write about events in your life? It needn’t be
your entire life; it may be about your childhood, a holiday or a
journey, or someone special you met. Perhaps you are inspired by
events that have happened to members of your family? Or perhaps
someone in the family is a source of inspiration? Perhaps you
yourself lived through an important historical moment? Everyone has
stories to tell and these workshops will give you the opportunity to
learn how to tell them. We will practise how to describe places and
people, how to structure and how to use different narrative
techniques. In each workshop we will look at short extracts of
published memoirs, do short writing exercises and discuss aspects of
writing. At the end of each workshop you will be welcome to submit
up to 500 words for some feedback for the next time.
Writing Fiction
Striving to tell the truth is one thing, but writing fiction is a
legitimate form of making things up! Of course, it must be
believable and in these workshops we will look at how to make
fiction convincing, how to create three-dimensional characters, how
to plot without it seeming contrived, the importance of research,
how to use the senses in order to create a place the reader can
visualise, and how to narrate. We will also consider sources of
inspiration, starting points for writing, the importance of
observing and listening, and practise narrative techniques such as
‘show’ not ‘tell’. In each workshop we will look at short extracts
of fiction, do short writing exercises and discuss the craft of
writing fiction. At the end of each workshop you will be welcome to
submit up to 500 words for some feedback for the next time.
About
the tutor:
Lisa
Selvidge has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East
Anglia and has been teaching creative writing for thirteen years at
both the Norwich School of Art & Design and the UEA. She currently
teaches online courses for several universities in the UK. She has
published the Writing Fiction Workbook and edited an
anthology of writings called Summer Times in the Algarve, as
well as fiction.
Writing Workshops are open to all nationalities but will be
conducted in English.
Please note that these are not courses as such and you are welcome
to attend as many or as few workshops as you wish.
To reserve a place, please contact Lisa
lisa.selvidge@clix.pt or 962887680. Minimum 6 people, maximum
12.
Getting to the Bica Boa
Estrada de Lisboa, 266
8550 Monchique, Algarve
Tel: 282 912 271
If you are approaching Monchique on the
main Portimão road, keep going through the town, past the main
square and watermill on your left and then the market on your right,
the Bombeiros on your left and the helipad and parking on your
right. Keep straight on at the roundabout and head out of Monchique,
past the Health Centre and you will come to the Bica Boa on your
right about 1 mile outside of the town.
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