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.
Starting Afresh: Many writers found 2020 a 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 27 February 2021:10.30 am to 3.30 pm. 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. Fee: $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students.
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 22 May 2021: 10. 30 am to 3.30 pm. 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 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 28 August 2021: 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. 129 Signal Hill Rd, Opoho.
Tea and coffee and baking provided, bring your own lunch. $60, $50 to ex-CWD students, $40 to current students.