Creative Writing
Overview:
Tutor: Valentine Venimore
Better known in the local area as a tutor of Art and Music, Valentine has also broad experience as a writer. He has been published as a prize winning poet, has had an original Musical Production performed on stage, was a columnist and cartoonist for a Hawkes Bay newspaper and has written a number of educational resources.
In this series of workshops we will look at some of the following (depending on the interests of the participants):
1-Poetry: Rhyming or otherwise, local and international, famous and obscure.
2-Creativity: (Lewis Carol: Portmanteau words. Jabberwocky: The Owl and the Pussycat, radically revised.)
3-Short Stories: From Katherine Mansfield to the modern day. Joe Bennett starters. Lyttleton columnist and humourist, Joe Bennett has written several volumes of short stories.
4-Articles & reviews: Consumer information, social commentary, news reporting.
5-Young people's stories.
6-Dialogue (scripts). One act plays.
7-Lyrics, song writing, themes and approaches.
8-Novels. Writing and publishing your best seller.
More information to come.