Permission to Write: Getting Out of Your Own Way

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Online // 

22nd January
7pm – 8.30pm

Whether you are a writer of prose, poetry, hybrids or any other word-shapes, join Tania Hershman for this special, one-off Zoom workshop to delve into how you might be getting in your own way – and open yourself up to a New Year of writing!

“Everything I write has to be serious.”

“I never write in first person.”

“I can only write in the morning.”

“I can’t write anything longer than 500 words.”

Are there things you almost always or never do when you write, habits you’ve gotten into, either in the way you write or in the writing itself? What are your own personal writing taboos?

The first step is to identify them – and then see what happens when you break habits, step towards what you haven’t given yourself permission to even try.

This live Zoom workshop will be interactive, with author and mentor Tania Hershman offering prompts for you to think about and discuss your own habits and taboos via the chat box. There will also be writing exercises to encourage you to experiment with breaking those habits and taboos, and discover new ways to enrich and liberate your own writing.

To take part, you will need access to the internet at the time and date shown, and be able to receive a joining link by email. This will be sent to you the day before the workshop. This workshop will be recorded for the purpose of sending to ticket holders who can’t make the event, or who miss a portion of the event, or who need the recording as part of their access needs.

 

 

Course dates

22nd January
7pm – 8.30pm

Course location

This is an online course

Cost

£10

Half-price place

There will be two half-price places and two free places available on a first come first served basis. Please email ennis@londonlitlab.co.uk to let us know if you would like one of these spots.

Further Info

The course will run with a minimum of 15 participants and a maximum of 100. Any questions at all, please drop us a line at info@londonlitlab.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help!

About the tutor

Tania Hershman’s second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022 and her debut hybrid novel, Go On, a “fictional-memoir-in-collage”, was published by Broken Sleep Books in Nov 2022. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). Her poetry pamphlet, How High Did She Fly, was joint winner of Live Canon’s 2019 Poetry Pamphlet Competition and her hybrid particle-physics-inspired book ‘and what if we were all allowed to disappear’ was published by Guillemot Press in March 2020. Tania is also the author of a poetry collection, a poetry chapbook and three short story collections, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014). Tania has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics and is currently working on an Arts-Council-DYCP-funded hybrid pamphlet inspired by the collision of neuroscience and non-human characters from Star Trek.

Permission to Write: Getting Out of Your Own Way

Image © Naomi Woddis