Not so Fast
Written from the workshop writing suggestion:
Make a list of some of the top things people fear in life. Use one of these fears as the starting place for a piece of writing.
by Jennifer Croft
A Charmed Life
Mistress
Written from the writing suggestion:
Create a column of nouns. To the right of this create a column of adjectives. Make unlikely pairings by connecting lines between the two. Create a piece of work from some or all of these pairings.
Subsequently published in the book, ‘First there was a Word, then there was a Woman’.
by Anastasia Volkhovskaya
Inner Wrist
A taku (hybrid form of haiku invented by the poet Richard Price), written post-workshop.
by Ingrid Leonard
Tending to the Princess
Written from the writing suggestion:
Use the Amsterdam Writers Story Jump-starter to start a story of your own.
by Jennifer Croft
On the Lightness of Air
Strength
Written during a workshop, but the suggestion was not recorded at the time.
by Ingrid Leonard
Excerpt from ‘The Cartography of Goodbyes’
Diary Entry of an Explorer
Written from the workshop writing suggestion:
Write a journal entry for either a thief, or an explorer.
by Kim Farrant
From ‘Letters to Eliza’
Written as one of a series of letters, developed in collaboration with a painter, then exhibited in numerous European locations.
by Anastasia Volkhovskaya