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.
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. It will be suitable for all levels of writing experience.
Saturday 25 February 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
Tui Bevin’s house, 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.
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 1 April 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
Tui Bevin’s house, 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.
Making Meaningful 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 27 May 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 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 long course students.
Tell it Slant
This day is an opportunity to refresh or taste for the first time creative nonfiction. We will look at how you can use fiction writing tools to create lively and interesting articles, blogs or essays.
Saturday 24 June 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 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 long course students.
Poetry, Black on White
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 29 July 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 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 long course students.
Catching Up
This day will be devoted to some reflexive writing and sharing some writing done over the year and also discussing ideas for writing in 2024.
Saturday 25 November 2023: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm.
Tui Bevin’s house, 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch.