Solihull Arts Complex

The Writing Well: workshops to restore and nourish creative energy

These friendly, stand-alone workshops are for anyone who’s always wanted to write but isn’t sure where to start, who used to write and wants to find their way back, or who wants to bring new life to their writing.

Each session offers structured, playful activities in a supportive, low-pressure environment. There’s no expectation to share your work unless you want to, and no pressure to produce a polished piece. Instead, we explore different ways into writing: weekly experiments designed to reconnect you with your innate creativity and help you grow in creative confidence.

The workshops draw on approaches that help make writing feel less daunting and more playful. They are particularly well-suited to people who feel anxious about writing, or who’ve felt blocked for a long time. Whether you’ve never written creatively before or you’ve been writing for years and feel stuck, these sessions are designed to help you find a way in, and keep going.

You’ll discover how to work gently with creative blocks, feed your imagination, and develop writing habits that work for you. Previous participants have found themselves writing more than they have in years, experimenting with new forms, or simply rediscovering the joy of playing with words.

Each workshop stands alone, so you can join at any point and come to as many or as few sessions as you like.

Not sure if it’s right for you? Just get in touch with Anna via www.bwriting.co.uk and we can arrange to chat.

BIO

Anna Lawrence is a Birmingham-based novelist, poet and creative writing educator, and Writer-in-Residence at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, where she runs B-Writing — a programme of coaching, classes and community. She was named one of the Telegraph’s top ten new novelists of 2010 for her debut novel, Ruby’s Spoon (Chatto & Windus), set in the Black Country. Her writing spans fiction, memoir, poetry, arts reviews and critical writing, with work published in Poetry Birmingham, Mslexia, Source and The Reader, and commissions for the International Festival of Glass, the George Eliot bicentenary project, and the British Council. She lectured in creative writing at Birmingham City University for seven years and holds a first-class BA in English Language and Literature (University of Oxford) and an MA in Chlidren’s Literature (Warwick University).