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. A Vaccine pass will be required.
Many writers have found the last two years difficult year for writing. 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. It will be suitable for all levels of writing experience.
Saturday 26 February 2022: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Tui Bevin’s house,
129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.
Fee: $65, $55 to ex-CWD students, $45 to current students and Friends of CWD.
And Then?
This day will focus on various elements of fiction writing and will include time to write a piece of flash fiction before the annual International Flash Fiction competition in June. It will be suitable for all levels of writing experience.
Saturday 30 April 2022: 10. 30 am to 3.30pm. Venue Tui Bevin’s house,
129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.
Fee: $65, $55 to ex-CWD students, $45 to current students and Friends of CWD.
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 4 June 2022: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Venue 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho..
Tea and coffee provided, bring your own lunch.
Fee: $65, $55 to ex-CWD students, $45 to current students and Friends of CWD.
Four Ways of Looking at a Poem
This day will focus on craft and workshopping poems. There will be an opportunity to create new poems as well as how to improve some already written. 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 29 October 2022: 10.30 am to 3.30pm.
Tui Bevin’s house, 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.
Fee: $65, $55 to ex-CWD students, $45 to current students and Friends of CWD.