bed Creative Writing Workshop
Creative Cravings?
Working in Corporate or Business and find you want a creative outlet?
Have to write copy on the regular and would like to pick up some tips, tricks and techniques from a pro about how to simply stimulate your process with everyday prompts, like your bed or doors? Writing needn’t be hard or terrifying and Carolyn knows this better than anyone and she will steward you through prompts and invitations designed to make this feel easy and to bring out the writer in you.
Set your alarms (or get your dinner)! We’re back with another creative writing workshop with poet and editor Carolyn Hashimoto.
Thursday November 9th 17:30 JST (8:30 GMT)
“Coorie doon”
After the resounding success of our Doors and Portals workshop, we are thrilled to have Carolyn back again with us for a second workshop – bed.
And as we enter autumn and coorie doon*, what better place to head to than our BED.
Our beds are a resting place, refuge, recovery area. They are a place of sanctuary, intimacy, and imagination. I’m sure many of you read in bed, so why not write there too?
In this workshop Carolyn and Sarah will create a safe and nurturing space to enable your thoughts and words and images to arrive on the page unbidden.
Together we will pay homage to our beds and leave no duvet cover or blanket unturned.
Sanctuary, Intimacy and Imagination
During the 90 minutes, we will read and explore works of poetry and art and lead you through a series of prompts and exercises.
The workshop is suitable for writers and artists of all abilities.
What I love about these workshops is the ease with which Carolyn takes us into writing in a humble and clear way. In the past workshops, I have opened doors into worlds that were not in my conscious mind prior - worlds that were on my doorstep, in my room (Like do you know how many openings and doors and portals are in any given room? I can count 5 in this single second alone, one of which I hadn’t even been aware of previous to the ‘doors’ workshop. It’s that simple. How many doors can you see around you now. Perhaps CS Lewis made this inquiry when he wrote the Lion the With and the Wardrobe and opened up that magical portal in ALL our imaginations. Doors to other magical worlds are part of history and dreaming across the ages. Those who can access them are incredibly powerful and it is through the simplest and seemingly mundane places and items that potent magic can access the surface. Like bed. Our latest workshop. what kind of portal to expression and creative is your bed? Or previous beds. It’s a most human place, when we sleep sleep does not discriminate between the billionaire or the refugee; each night we put our heads down and become dreamers. Magical beings with access to the deepest portals of imagination. Before we became capitalist beings, we were indigenous beings and these portals led us to safety, food, and wisdom. I am fascinated when I access these places through dream, writing, stewarded by seers like Carolyn or other creatives who pull back the first fur coat to see what’s behind…
Writing from your bed is optional but encouraged.
* Scots phrase meaning to snuggle, nestle.
Who is Carolyn?
Carolyn Hashimoto is a writer, poet and editor based in Scotland. She has published two collections of poetry – The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown with OrangeApple Press (2021) and COW with Osmosis Press (2022). She is the founder and editor of online journal Skirting Around which explores the politics of women’s clothing through creative writing and visual art. Before returning to her home in Scotland in 2013, Carolyn lived in Japan for 20 years, and she feels very much at home in Tokyo as she does in the forests and shorelines of Galloway.
