Writing The Future
~ with poets and Bending The Arc editors Alice Willitts, Ilse Pedler and Hilary Watson.
Online (with study pack): two live sessions 28th February and 14th March.
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Your voice and vision can shape the future.
Come with us to breathe life into your own incantations to summon a thriving, desirable and compassionate future.
In this online workshop series, we’ll teach new thrutopian poetry forms and techniques as transformational tools for manifesting futures you would want to leave to future generations. Write poetry which is grounded in the realities of the climate crisis and shows what’s possible when we trust the precious web of life on Earth.
We'll lead you through what ‘thrutopia’ is, ask you to activate your curiosity to exercise the imaginative muscles of optimism and joy, and show you how thrutopian poems can guide transformation.
We’ll meet online for an ‘Introduction to Thrutopia’, where you’ll also be given a pack of prompts and ideas for self-study before coming back for a work-in-progress session online, where you’ll get live feedback on your draft poems.
Dates
Saturday 28th February Week 1: Introduction to thrutopia. Live online session (1 hr), 9.30am - 10.30am
Week 1 & 2: Self-study (downloadable resources)
Saturday 14th March Week 3: Live online sharing and feedback session (1.5 hour), 9.30am - 11am.
Fee £55 (£45 concs.) for both live sessions and a downloadable self-study pack.
We encourage you to submit your thrutopian poems to Bending The Arc magazine.
Your Tutors
Ilse Pedler lives in Cumbria and works part time as a veterinary surgeon. Her first collection Auscultation was published in 2021 by Seren. She is the poet in residence at Sidmouth Folk festival and is one of the editors of Bending The Arc a magazine of Thrutopian writing
Hilary Watson lives in Cardiff. She was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee and graduated from the University of Warwick Writing Programme. Her poetry has been published widely in magazines across the UK and internationally. Her first collection is forthcoming. She is an editor at the Thrutopian writing magazine Bending The Arc. www.hilarywatson.co.uk
Alice Willitts is a poet and plantswoman from the Fens with a stubborn optimism about the future. She believes in putting hope into action: co-launching Bending The Arc, co-creating DIRT plantable poetry and is the author of six books including Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode) out now. www.alicewillittspoet.uk.