Who am I?

Imaginary Self Portrait, originally uploaded by katherine lynn.
How would you describe yourself to others? How much do other people really know what we’re like? These are some of the questions we were thinking about last week. Visiting workshop leader Rosy Carrick is working with the Piglets and the Saddlebacks and Piglets for two weeks. After [...]

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And the winner is…

Well done Carmen! Your name was picked at random and you will get  a prize at the workshops today. Carmen wrote a fantastically gruesome sentence using the word shark – take a read! Well done to everyone else who entered, I was impressed by how you all took the instructions and used them in different [...]

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Word of the day

As it’s half term this week, I’ve been busy today typing up the Piglets’ submissions for the Queenspark Books Cinema Project. It’s been funny re-reading them. Several of the people in our group wrote about the cockroaches-falling-on-people’s-head-at-Cineworld rumour – I don’t know where this story came from – anyone know if it’s true or not?
Anyway, [...]

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Cinematic Experiences

The Ghost cinema, originally uploaded by phill.d.
Lots of memories are evoked when we go to the cinema, as both Piglets and Saddlebacks found out in their writing sessions this week. Local readers’ and writers’ forum, QueenSpark Books, are compiling interesting texts written by people from Brighton and Hove about the history of cinema in Brighton. [...]

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Workshops cancelled – Tuesday 3rd February

snow beach with boats, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.

After some deliberation, we have decided to cancel today’s workshops on Tuesday 3rd February as there are sill problems with public transport and most schools are still closed.
Workshops will run as usual next week, Tuesday 10th February. In the meantime, leave a comment and let us know what [...]

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Cut and Paste a Poem

DSC01274, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.

Ever run out of words when you’re trying to write? How about browsing through the magazines and papers for inspiration! Saddlebacks had a lot of fun the week before last making up poems, short stories, fragments from borrowed words and phrases. They came up with some fantastic stuff.
And then last week [...]

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