Casual Saturday Classes: Dunedin
One-off Saturday classes focus on facilitated writing exercises around specific areas of writing and are designed for writers of all levels. Class exercises can re-energise your enthusiasm, and stimulate your imagination. Students find them entertaining and helpful in developing confidence. In order 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.
Stimulating the Muse: This day will act as a kick start to your writing and focus on developing spontaneity and writing with a fresh perspective about what you know and don’t know. It will be suitable for all genres of writing and all levels of writing experience.
Saturday 7 March 2020: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. Fee: $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students.
Taking Reality by Surprise: This day is a taster on 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 4 April 2020: 10. 30 am to 3.30 pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students. Please note this course has been cancelled due to coronavirus but may be offered later in the year.
Short, Flash or Autofiction?: This day will focus on various elements of fiction writing and introduce some new ideas and fresh perspectives. It is designed for all levels of students and is ideal to get you started or break your writer’s block.
Saturday 13 June 2020: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students.
Best Words, Best Order: This day will be a celebration of poetry with the emphasis on creating new poems. Designed for beginning poets as well as experienced poets who are looking for a fresh approach, 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 8 August 2020: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students.