Workshop for the Winter Solstice
An immersive writing workshop delving into the intricate webs woven between humans and the non-human world.
The winter solstice is celebrated by many cultures around the world and has themes of rebirth, renewal, and the return of light. As the shortest day and longest night, the winter solstice is a hinge point of the year marking the beginning of winter and is often seen as a time for hope and new beginnings.
Join JLM Morton just before the solstice for a very special online writing workshop exploring thin places where the veil between human and other-than-human turns to gauze.
We will write with ‘the trouble’ of entanglements - the idea that humans and nature are kith and kin, intricately interwoven, shaping one another’s lives in ways both visible and unseen. And we will be inspired by solstice themes of light and dark, rest and renewal in our readings, discussions and reflections to scatter the seeds of new writing on our pages which can be nurtured into growth over the coming weeks and months.
This workshop will include a symbolic ritual as part of the writing practice and preparation. Bring a candle and something to light it with - this will be your guide through these tender early evening hours of writing.
This workshop is open to writers working at any level and in any form.
Date Tuesday 17th December 6.30pm - 8.30pm ONLINE via Zoom
Cost £25
About your tutor: JLM Morton is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her work explores rural experience and belonging, ancestry, place and practices of care, repair and solidarity across human and other-than-human worlds. Highly commended by the Forward Prizes, winner of the Laurie Lee, Geoffrey Dearmer, Poetry Archive Worldview, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Poetry and International Dylan Thomas Day prizes, her work is published widely including in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Birmingham, Places of Poetry, Sunday Telegraph. Her collection, Red Handed, is out with Broken Sleep and she’s currently writing her next book with the support of an Author’s Foundation grant.