Prose-writing: setting yourself free.
This workshop will focus on different structures and styles of prose writing, including those of autofiction, to encourage attendees to write beyond and across genres. As writers we often find ourselves replicating formulas that weren’t created with stories that are underrepresented and historically marginalised in mind. This workshop will encourage attendees to consider alternative structures that heighten our self-expression on the page, and resist categorisation. Can autofiction offer us a space for a larger form of expression? Who is ‘allowed’ to write autofiction? What can structure do to resist, subvert, and strengthen our narratives and how can we apply this to our own work?
The workshop will look at different examples of structure, form, style, and attendees will be given different writing prompts which will push them to write in these various ways.
Wasafiri is excited to announce an autofiction workshop series, which comprises two online writing workshops tutored by our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar, taking place on 24 January 2023 and 21 February 2023, from 7-9pm GMT, on Zoom.
These online workshops will focus on autofiction, self-representation, and prose-writing across and beyond genres. The workshops will build upon each other and go hand-in-in, but can also be attended individually. Participants will consider definitions, critical viewpoints, structures, and themes to arrive at their own understanding of autofiction – a genre that can often be elusive. The workshops are open to writers at all levels and particularly to those from under-represented backgrounds and tickets can be purchased separately or as a pair with a workshop pass. Optional preliminary reading will be sent to participants before the workshops.
These workshop places can be purchased as a pair, or separately, with a variety of ticket options available to purchase, including concessions and a limited number of subsidised places. To purchase a ticket for both workshops please select one workshop pass in either of the workshops.