Noticing the Surreal in the Everyday: Using the world around you as inspiration
There are many strange and beautiful things that form part of the fabric of our daily life, if only we might attend to them. From the shadows that shiver at our feet, to the origin story of a glove left on the roadside, to that video of a goose tap-dancing in a blizzard, there is so much that we might wonder at...
Join writer and poet, Annie Hayter, in a workshop that will offer insight into ways you might enliven your writing, exploring various inspirations in everyday life that might feed into your work. This will be a warm and supportive space, and we will use our own personal environments, as well as music, doodling, poems, and art as inspiration for our work together.
This workshop is open to people of all levels of experience with writing, particularly writers who enjoy a multi-disciplinary approach; delving into weird and wonderful exercises, with a range of stimuli. At the end of our workshop, there will be an opportunity to share moments from some of the work created, if any participants feel happy to do so.
About the facilitator:
Annie Hayter was born in a paddling-pool beneath a waning moon, and they have been terrible at swimming ever since. They studied English at the University of Oxford, and won BBC PROMS Young Poet. A runner up for Times Young Poet of The Year, they came third in the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry, and have been shortlisted for The White Review’s Poet’s Prize, Young People’s Laureate for London, Desperate Literature Prize, Bridport Prize, amongst others. They’ve published work in The Big Issue, the Rialto, MAGMA, The London Magazine, TimeOut, etc. They've performed across the UK, including at the Forward Prizes, Southbank Centre and on Radio 3. They’ve facilitated workshops with organisations like the National Youth Orchestra, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Prince's Teaching Institute, University of Kent, and the Barbican.
This event is only available to participants of Friends Who Write Season 2, if you'd like to join, register for FWW first at https://t2.world/fww