First Official Writing Workshop

Today heralded the very first official writing workshop, hosted at thisisnotashop by Jessamyn Fiore and Jessica Foley.

The turn out couldn't have been better, many thanks to Gerry, Blaise, AnnMarie, Claire, Felicity and Tim for materialising on the day and contributing so wholeheartedly to the workshop.

The workshop began with a brief personal introduction by all of the participants; backgrounds in writing range from poetry and playwriting to journalism, short story writing, art writing and critical theory, to artists working with text. The diverse nature of these interests will no doubt lead to dynamic and challenging collaborations and productions as the weeks go on.

An exercise was began in class, after an interesting reading and discussion of a short play by Jessamyn Fiore. Each participant wrote a short introductory paragraph putting a couple of characters into context, and following with three lines of dialogue. These were then sealed in envelopes and each participant took home a different envelope in order to complete the dialogue. Looking forward to seeing what responses will come from the envelopes!

The next workshop is scheduled for Tuesday August 14th at thisisnotashop. Thanks to Gerry and Blaise who will contribute a selection of their work to the workshop to be opened up to reading and discussion. An email will be sent around to all participants in the meantime.

Thanks for such a successful first workshop - its great to get such a positive and energetic response to an independent venture such as this - roll on the 14th!