We are excited to introduce to you the next stage of the Spelt five year plan: The Spelt Nature Writing School. All Spelt courses are zoom based. The school offers three terms per year, each term lasts three months. Spelt is offering four week courses, weekend workshops and regular writing groups led by experienced facilitators with excellent publishing track records.
We are making a commitment to pay our facilitators a proper fee, and we are making a commitment to provide one free bursary place for each course. If you feel you might be eligible for a bursary place, drop us a line at speltmagazine@gmail.com. You won’t be asked to prove your eligibility.
Spelt remains unfunded and so courses may be cancelled if we don’t get enough bookings to cover facilitator fees.
If you have any questions please email Spelt at Speltmagazine @gmail.com
Thank you for being a part of the Spelt story.
Spring Term
January
Dawn Chorus Early Morning Writing Group
Facilitated by: Wendy Pratt
Daily 7-8am UK time
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th January 2023
£7.00 for all five days, come to as many or as few as you wish.
For further details and to book your place follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Prompts and Poems
Four Week Zoom Poetry Discussion and Writing Group
Fridays 2-4pm (UK time)
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th January 2023
Facilitated by: Wendy Pratt
£70.00
For further details and to book your place follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Maps and Legends
A Two hour zoom writing workshop.Explore your local landscapes, along with the history, wildlife and stories attached to them.
Facilitator: Matt Merritt
Saturday January 7th 2023
11am-1pm (UK time)
£17.00
For further details and to book your place follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Noticing Nature
A Two hour zoom workshop. This interactive workshop will sharpen your senses, and to show you how to use easy research techniques to drive your writing to the next literary level.
Facilitator: Kiera Chapman
Saturday January 14th 2023
11am-1pm (UK time)
£17.00
For further details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
February
Dawn Chorus Early Morning Writing Group
Facilitated by: Wendy Pratt
Daily 7-8am UK time
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th February 2023
£7.00 for all five days, come to as many or as few as you wish.
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Bedwine and Foxwise: Portals, Threads, Resistance and What Wildness is
Four Week Zoom Course
Facilitated by: Nicola Chester
7pm – 9pm UK time
Monday 6th February 2023
Monday 13th February 2023
Monday 20th February 2023
Monday 27th February 2023
£70
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Writing Yourself into the Land
A Two hour zoom poetry workshop. Go beyond observations of the natural world in your poetry and sow your own memories, hopes and anxieties amongst your words.
Facilitated by: Matthew Headley Stoppard
Saturday February 4th 2023
11am – 1pm (UK Time)
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
£17.00
One Bursary Place available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
Writing the Rural
A two hour zoom poetry film workshop exploring how we can write poetry about the rural experience, both gritty and pastoral.
Facilitated by: Sarah Wimbush
Saturday 18th February 2023
11am – 1pm (UK Time)
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
£17.00
One bursary place is available for a writer in receipt of benefits. Email: speltmagazine@gmail.com to enquire
March
Dawn Chorus Early Morning Writing Group
Facilitated by: Wendy Pratt
Daily 7-8am (UK Time)
13th, 14th, 15th, 16, 17th March 2023
£7.00 for all five days. Come to as many or as few as you like.
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
One bursary place is available on this workshop for a writer in receipt of benefits. please email speltmagazine@gmail to enquire.
Burrowing Down to Base
A four week zoom course. You’ll read new things about landscape and place. You’ll write about how these underpin our sense of self. You’ll develop your own poetics of place.
Facilitated by: Dr. R.M. Francis
Mondays 6th, 13th, 20th 27th March 2023 7-9pm
£70.00
For more details and to book your place, follow this link: Eventbrite
One bursary place is available on this course for a writer in receipt of benefits. Please email speltmagazine@gmail to enquire.
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