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.
Weaving Words: This day will 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 4 May 2019. 10.30 am to 3.30 pm.Venue to be advised.
Muse over Memoir: 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 29 June 2019. 10. 30 am to 3.30pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee provided, bring your own lunch. Fee: $50, $40 to ex-CWD students, $30 to current students.
What’s the Story? 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 27 July 2019. 10.30 am to 3.30 pm.Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee provided, bring your own lunch. Fee: $50, $40 to ex-CWD students, $30 to current students.
Spring into Poetry: 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 21 September 2019. 10.30 am to 3.30pm. Venue to be advised.
Tea and coffee provided, bring your own lunch. Fee: $50, $40 to ex-CWD students, $30 to current students.