Updated Online Schedule Jan-Apr 2021
21 January 2021
Revised ArtfulScribe online schedule: Jan-April 2021
Mondays 5-6.30pm ArtfulScribe After School Club (free to attend)
Aimed at Secondary School and 6th Form college-aged participants, led by Tabitha Hayward featuring creative approaches to generate new work for publication, performance, and personal satisfaction (all genres)
For sign-up details please email youngwritersonline@artfulscribe.co.uk
Tabitha Hayward holds a First Class English Degree from University of Oxford and works as a script-reader for Finborough Theatre and as an English tutor. A brilliantly engaging creative practitioner.
Mondays 7-8.30pm: Mayflower Creative Writers (free to attend)
(18-25 years) led by Antosh Wojcik
writing, editing and developing work for performance and publication (all genres)
For sign-up details, please email mayflowercreativewriters@artfulscribe.co.uk
Playwright, dramatist, and performance poet, Antosh has featured on Sky Arts, toured nationally and is a former winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam.
Mondays 7-9pm An Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing
(see session dates) led by Joanna Barnard
A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis
Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.
For sign-up details please email
writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk
Session dates 1/15/29 March, 19 April, 10/24 May 2021
Wednesdays 7-9pm comMent
(see session dates) led by ArtfulScribe director, Matt West
A supportive community writing group for men, and people who identify as male, to explore, develop and create new writing reflecting contemporary perspectives of masculinity.
For sign-up details please email:
matt@artfulscribe.co.uk
This is a 6-week pilot project to gauge interest and shape a future ArtfulScribe offer.
Session dates 10/17/24 Feb, 3/10/17 March 2021
Thursdays 5-6pm ArtfulScribe Junior Writers Club (free to attend)
(7-11 years) led by Susmita Bhattacharya
This group, aimed at primary school children, features fun ways to engage and get creative with words, encouraging young people’s voices to be heard.
For sign-up details, please email
juniorwritersclub@artfulscribe.co.uk
Susmita is an award-winning novelist whose recent book Table Manners won a Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and when not writing Susmita is mother to two young ladies.
First Thursday of each month SO:Write Women
11-1pm and third Saturday of
each month 10am-12pm led by Joanna Barnard
A group tailored towards creating, sharing and celebrating women’s writing in a safe and supportive environment
For sign-up details please email
sowritewomen@artfulscribe.co.uk
Joanna Barnard won the Bath Novel Award in 2014 with Precocious and her second novel Hush Little Baby was published in 2017. Jo has worked with SO:Write Women for the past three years.
You can find out more about Joanna at www.joannaibarnard.wordpress.comand read about SO:Write Women in our blog at www.artfulscribe.co.uk/blogs
Thursday 11am-1pm An Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing
Weeks 1 and 3 of each month led by Joanna Barnard
A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis
Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.
For sign-up details please email
writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk
Please note this is a 6-session course, starting 21 Jan 2021.
Thursday 11am-1pm Writing for Wellbeing (advanced)*
Weeks 2 and 4 of each month led by Joanna Barnard
A qualified counsellor and award-winning novelist leads these sessions to encourage new and advanced writers to develop a toolbox of skills for creative self-expression during times of crisis
Participants in a recent pilot described the sessions as ‘validating’, ‘healing’, ‘inspiring’ and more.
For sign-up details please email
writingforwellbeing@artfulscribe.co.uk
*Please note, this group is only available for people who have completed an ‘Introduction to Writing for Wellbeing course with Joanna. This is a 6-session course offer.
Saturday 9.30 – 11.00am Mayflower Young Writers (11-14 years) Free to attend
led by Susmita Bhattacharya
A Hampshire-based group for young writers who normally meet at Mayflower Theatre during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including publishing an anthology and writing for performance
For sign-up details, please email
youngwriters@artfulscribe.co.uk
Saturday 11.15am- 1pm Mayflower Young Writers (15-18 years) Free to attend
led by Susmita Bhattacharya
A Hampshire-based group for young writers who normally meet at Mayflower Theatre during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance
For sign-up details, please email
youngwriters@artfulscribe.co.uk
Saturday 9.15 – 1045am Lighthouse Young Writers (11-14 years) Free to attend
led by Tabitha Hayward
A Dorset-based group for young writers who normally meet at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance
For sign-up details please email
Perdie.Bargh@lighthousepoole.co.uk
Saturday 11.30 – 1pm Lighthouse Young Writers (15-18 years) Free to attend
led by Tabitha Hayward
A Dorset-based group for young writers who normally meet at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts during term-time and work towards project-based outcomes including arts awards, publishing an anthology and writing for performance
For sign-up details please email
Perdie.Bargh@lighthousepoole.co.uk
