Writing
Workshops
Andrew Tucker Leavis has many years’ experience of designing and delivering creative writing workshops for schools, festivals and cultural organisations.
Each of his sessions are built around a central creative concept, blending technical tips with a sense of imaginative fun. Participants will walk away with some practical tools to use in their future writing.
Workshops can be adapted for different group sizes, experience levels and timeframes.
If you’re programming a literary festival, running a library event series or looking for an engaging feature for a pop up arts space, do get in touch to book a workshop, or to discuss your idea.
Example workshop:
Imagined Libraries
In this 90-minute session, participants work on their world-building skills to design their own dream library, be it fantastical, majestic or sinister. Then they’ll hone their point-of-view skills by writing a tense scene set in this new imaginary space.
Imagined Libraries has been delivered with:
Book Arsenal Festival, Kyiv
Boroondara Libraries, Melbourne
The Summer Arts Pop Up, Nottingham
Participants begin by learning about the most bizarre and intriguing libraries from history and fiction, before designing their own sanctuary space.
Through guided prompts, they make a series of quick, intuitive decisions that bring their imagined space to life. The workshop then moves into a creative writing exercise that puts those choices to work, using the library as a lens for experimenting with narrative perspective: who's telling this story, what do they notice and what gets leave out?
Participants are left with a piece of new writing rooted in a world they have built from scratch, alongside a sharper sense of how point of view shapes everything on the page.
