Blue Nose Correspondence Workshops
A new initiative for 1999
The Blue Nose Correspondence Workshops present an exciting new prospect for beginning and established poets seeking to develop a distinctive voice or attempting to collect, improve and refine material for the purpose of performance, competition or publication.
Poetry workshops can sometimes be a hit or miss affair. There isn't always scope to examine the processes and development of a participant's writing over an extended period of time. Residential courses can solve some of these problems, but are often expensive or give limited one-to-one contact.
The
Blue Nose is offering a series of Correspondence Workshops which provide continuity to poets wishing to engage with established writers in a critical yet supportive context. Participating poets receive a committed response to their work, in writing, and an opportunity to correspond with experienced tutors. Three pages of poetry are submitted at regular intervals throughout the year, and are returned by the tutors in time for the next submission.If participants wish, poems may be resubmitted for further development in subsequent sessions. In this way a creative dialogue is established between participant and tutor, whereby poets can receive a guiding hand in the sometimes long process of drafting towards publication.
The Tutors
The principal tutors will be
Mario Petrucci and Sue Hubbard. Both are highly experienced poets who have been running creative writing workshops and poetry events for well over a decade. Their Blue Nose work in London is supported by the London Arts Board as well as by a Poetry Places grant administered through the Poetry Society.How the Course Works
1. Enrolment
Students can enrol at any time during the year, but semesters begin on either February 1 OR August 1. No other start dates are available.
Enrolment should be no later than
Earlier take-up is strongly advised. To enrol, contact
Blue Nose for a pack.The August 1999 course is now full, and bookings are being taken for the February 2000 start date.
2. Submitting work
Both courses run for a full year, with six deadlines for submitted work. Detailed instructions for the submission of your poems will be sent with the Enrolment Pack.
3. Feedback from Tutors
Tutors will respond with commentary, an assessment of strengths and weaknesses and, as appropriate, suggestions for ways forward. They will engage the poems in terms of CONTENT, FORM and STYLE. Naturally, the response will be concerned with technical and emotive aspects of the work, but the tutors will also strive to be sensitive to the poet's overall goals and how they may best be achieved. Every effort will be made to return poems within four weeks of each deadline. This gives at least three weeks to decide on the subsequent submission.
The tutors' aim is to assist and encourage individual originality and the development of a distinctive voice. Commentary on the poems will be honest, but supportive. Tutors will also make every attempt to suggest exercises and further reading, if suitable.
The 12-month course costs from £125. For an Information and Enrolment Pack, contact us now.
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