Sticky Saturday Classes: Dunedin 2025
One-off Saturday classes focus on facilitated writing exercises which are designed for writers of all levels and all genres. Class exercises can re-energise your enthusiasm and stimulate your imagination. Students find them entertaining and helpful in developing confidence. To ensure a good quality of feedback, each course will be limited to 10 participants. Courses undertaken will be dependent on minimum numbers for each.
Courses will be held at Tui Bevin’s house, 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho which is comfortable, warm and has expansive views.
Tea and coffee and sticky buns provided, bring your own lunch.
Fee: $65, $55 to ex-CWD students, $50 to current long course students.
Starting Anew or Afresh
This day will be given to refocusing on your writing and finding new ideas and topics. Exercises will be given on a variety of subjects, and you can choose to write fiction, poetry or memoir. The emphasis is on spontaneity and sharing your writing with a supportive group.
Saturday 15 February 2025: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
And Then?
This day will focus on addressing the question, And Then? That is how to pose and then answer the question what happened next, whether you are writing fiction, poetry or memoir. There will be a concentration on narrative suspense in even a brief piece of writing. It will be suitable for all levels of writing experience.
Saturday 3 May 2025: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
Inventing the Truth
This day is an opportunity to refresh or taste for the first time writing about real lives, either your own or that of others. We will focus on stimulating your memory and ways of looking at the past and how to make your stories have meaning for readers.
Saturday 19 July 2025: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
Spring into Poetry
This day will be a celebration of poetry with the emphasis on crafting new and original poems. Designed for beginning poets as well as experienced poets who are looking for a fresh approach. It is not necessary to have written poetry before as critiquing will be a class exercise. It’s an opportunity to read your poems aloud and receive supportive feedback from the class. Please bring 1 or 2 poems to work on.
Saturday 20 September 2025: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.