Hybrid Forms Workshop
£15.00 - £30.00
Hybrid Forms Workshop
28 May
7-9pm
Online via Zoom
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Join Kirsty Strang-Roy for an immersive two hour workshop exploring speculative worlds as a way to reimagine and invigorate our writing. We’ll explore roots, rhizomes, and robots in a relaxed space filled with reading, reflection and writing prompts. Featuring work by Donna Haraway, Becky Chambers, Megan Hunter, Daisy Johnson, Max Porter and George Saunders and others who have championed weird and wonderful forms in their playful work.
Perfect for those already writing in speculative genres or anyone looking for a supportive nudge to step outside their comfort zone.
No matter what you're writing, this workshop will offer a playful toolkit to approach your work in progress by practicing some fragmented and hybrid forms. We'll borrow from organic and cyborg structures as a way to experiment with our own words and come away with a reinvigorated sense of playfulness and a fresh perspective on those tricky drafts.
All abilities, forms, and genres are welcome. There’s never any pressure to share your work and you'll be surrounded by the most supportive humans (and more-than-humans) you can imagine.
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TUTOR
Kirsty Strang-Roy is a Glasgow-based writer and creative practitioner. Her work explores the world through hands-on and inclusive writing and participatory arts workshops.
She's recently undertaken commissions for the Scottish Mental Health Foundation, Glasgow LIfe, Southside Wellbeing Festival, University of Strathclyde, Plenty? Festival and The Barn's Third Stage programme for over-55s. She also mentors emerging and under-represented writers for the Arkbound Foundation.
She is currently working on a hybrid prose-poetry novella as well as a literary memoir and a handbook for teaching poetry in outdoor settings.
She has a Masters in Children's and Creative writing from the University of Roehampton. She also holds an MPhil in literary and visual culture from the University of Glasgow.
Her passion is helping people make space for their own creativity through nurturing environments where humans of all abilities and backgrounds can thrive. You can find her on Instagram @kirstystrangroycreates
