Thrive is a five-week course designed to help build on the skills you developed in WLAG Levels One and Two while deepening your confidence as a writer.

If you haven't attended Ignite or Inspire, our first and second level courses you are still very welcome to attend Thrive!

This course really focusses on self-compassion, quieting the inner critic and strengthening your belief in yourself as an artist. It’s not demanding on your time, but will offer rich opportunities to reflect on your creative practice, reconnect with your voice and get honest about what’s holding you back. All in the company of brilliant, supportive humans!

We’ll hone our craft skills and develop new approaches and literary techniques, analysing brilliant writers such as Claire Keegan, Ramona Ausubel, Carmen Machado Marquez and others. Through their work, we’ll learn how to craft vivid, emotionally resonant writing with precision, opening up new possibilities in our own practice. Themes we delve into over the course include writing happiness, mood and tension, comedy and writing the erotic and the weird.

Whether you need cheering on, cheering up, want to reignite your writing habit, or keep smashing out those words, Thrive is for you!

Tutor: Kerry Ryan has won the Spilling Ink short story prize, been shortlisted for the Myriad First Editions prize, the 2023 Writers & Artists Prize, the HG Wells Prize, and had writing published in The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine among others. She is a contributing editor of ‘So Long as You Write‘ (Dear Damsels) 2022 and the Write like a Grrrl anthology (Grind and Bearing) 2022. Her poetry can be found in the Spectrum anthology by Renard Press, longlisted for the Rialto prize and published widely. Her play ‘Trust’ was staged at the Gulbenkian Theatre. In 2022, she received the Arts Council England DYCP award. She has a Masters with distinction and a PhD in Literary Studies/Creative Writing.

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Venue: The Create Place, E2 9PJ

Access: If you have any access needs of which we should be aware, please let us know.
Entry to The Create Place is step-free but the toilet is not accessible. If you need access to an accessible toilet, please let us know so we can arrange that.

Date: Saturdays

Time: 10.30am-12.30pm

Tickets: start at £89.99