WRITE ON THE FARM 2019, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS ON AN UPLAND FARM IN CUMBRIA

2019 Spring/Summer Dates:

February 23rd - Jane's Farm

March 23rd - Jane's Farm
April 13th: Jane's Farm

May - no May workshop

June 22nd - Jane's Farm with co-tutor New York poet George Wallace

Autumn/Winter Dates

tbc

Saturdays, 10.30am-4.30pm

Welcome! to the 2018 series of Write on the Farm  creative writing workshops, led by writer Geraldine Green

Come and join us! and write with us on the farm. A wonderful upland farm set between the Lakes and the Dales 

10.30am-4.30pm Cost: £35 incl. refreshments. Please bring your own lunch, waterproof footwear and clothing as part of the afternoon session takes place outside.

Here are the workshop dates for Write on the Farm 2019. All will be held at Jane’s Farm except the March, June and September workshops. Please email me if you’d like to come along to one or more of the Write on the Farm workshops:

Spring/Summer, Saturdays 10.30am-4.30pm

Cost of one day Write on the Farm workshops: £35, incl. refreshments. Please bring your own lunch, also warm waterproof clothing and footwear as part of the afternoon sessions will be held outdoors, plus writing materials and camera.

Through a variety of writing prompts new writing will be produced in a safe and supportive environment. Feedback on new work and also on ongoing projects, will be given by the group and tutor. 

Whether through poetry, prose, travel writing, dreams or journals, these workshops encourage us to explore where and how we dwell and how we take experience and memories with us when we travel to other places, real or imagined.

Feedback given by group and tutor on individual’s writing (any genre). Please bring six copies of writing to be work-shopped.

Through a variety of writing prompts and stimuli new writing produced

Morning:  Gather in the Farmhouse kitchen, 10.30am-12.30pm new writing produced from a variety of writing prompts and stimuli; feedback given.

Lunch

Afternoon: reflective ramble and note taking, followed by quiet writing time, read back and feedback.

Workshops take place in Cumbria on a farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 10.30am to 4.30pm.

Cost: £35. Please bring own lunch and waterproof footwear and clothing. Refreshments provided.  

If interested in attending the ‘Write on the Farm’ workshops please email me, or contact me through Poetry PF

An experienced creative writing tutor and mentor, I’ve had two full collections of poetry published, with a third published in 2018; gained a PhD in Creative Writing titled: “An Exploration of Identity and Environment through Poetry” from Lancaster University and been widely anthologized. 

Pamphlet collections include The Skin, Passio, Poems of a Molecatcher’s Daughter. Full collections published by Indigo Dreams Pubs. are: The Other Side of the Bridge, Salt Road, and  Passing Through

Travels and readings have taken me to Europe and North America, where I’ve read at a variety of venues on the East and West coasts and also the Mid West.