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Reawakenings: A Four Elements workshop

  • The Phoenix Garden 21 Stacey Street London, WC2H 8DG (map)

***SOLD OUT***

What's been sleeping, and what’s now stirring? And what can we spring into action in our writing?

The past few years have been marked by great changes for all of us: fears of plague and war and climate disaster, moral panics about woke culture, political upheaval, social isolation, personal loss. But nightmares are followed by the possibility for facing down our fears, and seeing and doing things anew. How might writing play a role in our lives?

Drawing on the powers of the four elements, in this workshop we'll look for fresh inspirations in the ideas of sleeping and waking. As we gather again to write together, let's sharpen our awareness and reawaken our imaginative purpose.

This workshop will include:

  • preparatory readings and writing exercises (optional) - we’ll contact you a couple of weeks before the workshop with these

  • in-class discussion, meditations, and writing

  • teatime with the book doctor: opportunities to raise questions about writing and publishing over tea and cake

  • follow-up notes, including writing experiments, reading suggestions, and resources on writing and creativity


Workshop Leader

Andrew Wille is a book doctor and writing teacher. At Little, Brown and as a freelance editor he has published and edited many bestselling and critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He studied and taught at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, birthplace of the modern mindfulness movement, and draws on contemplative and holistic approaches to creativity in his teaching. He writes fiction and nonfiction, and also blogs and offers resources on writing and publishing at www.wille.org.