Begin your morning in a calm, productive space and carve out some time to focus purely on your writing, before the rest of the day crowds in. With expert guidance and useful, inventive prompts, this series of weekly writing workouts will wake up your writing practice, generate some new beginnings and give you the encouragement and momentum to propel your writing forward.
This month, we invite you to be playfully poetic with the T. S. Eliot nominated poet Ella Frears. Whether you’re a poet, an aspiring poet – or would simply like to inject some poetic creativity into your prose – these sessions will energise the start of your day. These sessions will be experimental, exploratory, supportive – and most importantly – fun. You don’t need to arrive with anything; but you will leave with something new.
About our writing workouts
Our 60-minute writing workouts are the perfect opportunity to hone your writing skills and establish a regular writing practice. Each month, we’ll be joined by a special guest tutor excited to share their knowledge with you through a series of practical creative writing exercises.
Try one workout or book the series with a 20% discount – and if the times don’t suit, recordings will be available for two weeks so you can catch-up or revisit exercises at your own pace.
By enrolling in the workouts, you will also gain access to the Guardian Masterclasses creative writing online community, where we share bonus content and where you can connect with fellow writers.
This course is for …
Writers and aspiring writers, no experience required. Everybody is welcome – except your inner critic.
Tutor profile
Ella Frears’s collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Ella is a trustee and editor for Magma poetry magazine and has been poet in residence for Tate Britain, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department and the John Hansard Gallery, among others.
Ella works at the intersection of poetry and visual art; mentoring visual artists who use text, as well as working across media herself. She was recently named the first poet in residence for the Dartington Trust Gardens and is a Royal Literary Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
She hosts Tears for Frears, a quarterly show on Soho Radio about the moments – big, small and unexpected – that move us to tears.
Details
Date: Friday 3, Friday 10, Friday 17, Friday 24 November 2023
Time: 8am-9am (GMT)
Price: £35 per class (plus £2.20 booking fee) or receive a 20% discount and book all four classes for £112 (plus £5.71 booking fee)
A catch-up recording will be shared after the class and will be available for two weeks.
This masterclass is available globally. See this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.
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You will be sent a link to the webinar 24 hours and 30 minutes before the course start time. Please email masterclasses@theguardian.com if you do not receive the access link 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
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