Workshops and Readings 2015

Dates for your Diary, 2015:

January 6th: workshop and reading for Suffolk Poetry Society delighted to be invited for the third year running, from one Peninsula to another.you can find more info about the workshop and reading, here

WRITE IN THE FOREST, series of four creative writing workshops in The Yan, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria - suitable for writers at any level
11am-3pm, £25 incl refreshments, free parking
February 28th, June 6th, September 5th and November 7th
Booking through Geraldine Green
please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1@gmail[dot]com

 more info here

February-June: Write on the Farm -  writing workshops on Saturdays at Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale: cost £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch
February 21st, March 21st, April 25th, May 23rd, June 27th
Note: April 25th with David Burbidge (tbc), May 23rd full day workshop on Piel Island

February Saturday, 21st Write on the Farm, 10.30-4.30pm £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch. Morning session: indoors writing exercises. Afternoon session: part of it outdoors, part spent on quiet writing time. Suitable clothing and footwear advisable

March 21st: Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

April 
16th 2.30pm-4pm Launch of Arachne Press Anthology 'The Other Side of Sleep, Grange Library, Grange-over-Sands Cumbria Arachne Press

April 25th Write on the Farm Jane's farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - special morning workshop with David Burbidge - Singing on the Farm!

May 23rd Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale - please note: this workshop will take place on the wonderful Piel Island, Furness Peninsula, SW Cumbria!

June 27th Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

June 

WRITE IN THE FOREST, series of four creative writing workshops in The Yan, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria - suitable for writers at any level
11am-3pm, £25 incl refreshments, free parking
February 28th, June 6th, September 5th and November 7th
Booking through Geraldine Green
please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1@gmail[dot]com

12th-14th: Midsummer Festival of Words, Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
 Swarthmoor Hall mini Literary Festival celebrating my time as writer-in-residence at the Hall and also celebrating work produced on the Living Words workshops by participants - all welcome!

Friday - 2pm - Geraldine will read from her new pamphlet A Wing & A Prayer
Saturday 10.30am-12noon - Story Trees! children's writing and drawing playtime in the Meadow
Saturday 2pm - Living Words reading by contributors to the Living Words anthology, host Geraldine Green
Saturday evening Quaker Music

Please see Swarthmoor Hall's website for more details and how to book (link above)
Sunday Music from Gershwin

19th-21st  Midsummer Poetry Course with Penelope Shuttle and Geraldine Green  Brantwood Coniston email: Brantwood - early booking advisable

June 27th Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

photos: Geraldine Green, Swarthmoor Hall 12.11.2014, Williamsburg Bridge NYC July 21st 2014

Poetry Trip, New York/New Jersey/Connecticut

August 4th Sip This, Valley Stream, Long Island, host Lorraine Conlin

August 5th William Carlos Williams Centre Rutherford New Jersey, host Claudia Serea

William Carlos Williams

August 9th Maritime Center East Hampton Long Island, host AnnaLee
August 11th The Noshery Amityville, Long Island, host Russ Green
August 13th Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY with Andy Clausen
August 14th Artist Tree Bristol Connecticut with George Wallace, host Colin Haskins

Back to the UK!
August 27th Mungrisdale Writers - Creative Writing Workshop, Mungrisdale Village Hall

September 5th Furness Abbey Medieval Fair - delighted to be reading again at this wonderful place! Furness Abbey, Barrow in Furness Cumbria

September 18th-22nd Friday-Tuesday Residential Writing Course on Jane's farm, a working upland farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - 2pm-2pm
Course Fee £300 per person
Accommodation at Jane's farm, or B&B's close by, is extra.
Please 'phone Jane 015395-67277 for accommodation details on her farm, or visit Trip Advisor for accommodation in and around Kirkby Lonsdale
Please email me for more details/course bookings
geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

October 8th Carte Blanche Newcastle, contact Pippa Little

October 19th-22nd (Monday - Thursday) Brantwood Coniston with Geraldine Green and Pippa Little Please contact Rachel Litten at Brantwood for cost of course, accommodation and bookings, thanks.

2016
June: Brantwood Coniston New York poet George Wallace and Geraldine Green