This will be a playful workshop that will use a variety of research techniques and collaborative writing tasks to bring the whimsy back into writing. Using the year you were born as a jumping off point, we will explore ways to write about the self that will surprise and challenge you. Hopefully, you'll learn some things you didn't know about yourself and your fellow workshop attendees along the way. 

Max: 30 ppl
Price £25
Duration 3 hours

Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer and facilitator based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and performed nationally and internationally. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Blue Peter and TEDx in Vienna. She was the Bristol City Poet for 2018 - 2020 and her poem on the toppling of Edward Colston's statue ‘Hollow' went viral on Twitter. She wrote and presented ‘The Poetry Detective’ for Radio 4 in 2021 which has been commissioned for a second series. She has two poetry collections with Burning Eye Books and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. Her work is published in poetry anthologies Everything is Going To Be Alright (Trapeze Books), More Fiya (Canongate) and the essay collection Black Joy (Penguin). She is the co-tutor for the Southbank New Poets Collective alongside Will Harris and her essay collection Neverland is forthcoming with Canongate in September 2024.  

If you are unable to attend this workshop, we’re pleased to be able to make a session recording available for purchase for limited duration viewing — PLAYBACK: On the Year of My Birth with Vanessa Kisuule Recording

Purchase Link

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Zoom Recording

Please note that this Zoom session will be recorded. A playback link will be sent afterwards to all participants in that session. Password-protected playback links are also available for purchase for limited duration viewing.