Workshop Writers’ Work

Still Life Workshop Anthology

Living through the Covid-19 pandemic posed a particular problem for the writers of fiction, namely how to create work in a world which seemed to have risen ready made from the genre of dystopian fiction. Meeting in groups on Zoom broadened the scope of our workshops in so many ways but it also added an unreal element. For a time we were all characters in a fiction of someone else’s making. So how to react to such a life changing situation?

Some of the workshop writers avoided the subject like the plague while others grasped it by the throat. You’ll find it here in all its shades and variations. 26 writers, artists and photographers reacting in their own unique way to the threat of the unseen, the unknown. Available to buy on Amazon

“I was very familiar with Zoom but Roddy’s workshops really make the most of the format. Close reading other writer’s work onscreen is a revelation and I love watching videos of poets and plays. But one of the best things about the workshop is Roddy’s  help with homework. It’s like a magic wand has been waved over it.” Margaret Cooper  –  Zoom workshop writer.

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In this section we share a selection of our writers’ weekly homework pieces and timed exercises. Homework is normally 500 – 750 words maximum, the timed exercises are completed in the workshop within 20 minutes.

Its not uncommon for one of the workshop writers to develop and combine their homework pieces and craft them into a long form story, or even a novel. These two long form pieces by Sue Hitchcock are perfect examples.

The Disinformation Correspondent by Sue Hitchcock

Read Sue’s piece

Square One by Sue Hitchcock

Read Sue’s piece

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