Summer 2025 Creative Writing Programme
**PLEASE NOTE: At the moment each person is limited to enrolling in 1 course. Please say in the form if you’re interested in more than one, and if there are still spare places closer to the start date then it may be possible.**
Without a form / Without forms
An 8-week course exploring poetry histories & techniques from around the world, including the Black Arts Movement, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, 20th century poetry in Brazil & the influence of theatre, and Free Verse poetry in Arabic & its relationships to social struggles.
These different approaches to writing & engaging with poetry will be explored in digestible ways, with the aim of expanding & challenging our own assumptions of what a poem is, looks like, sounds like, what it is often obligated to reveal; and what a poem can be.
Material written during the course will be edited & published in a new pamphlet anthology later this year. There will also be the opportunity to meet with people on the other two courses to share writing.
Please read the course details carefully, and complete the form to sign up.
Course details:
- 8 weekly Mondays from 9th June to
28th July, 6:30PM to 8:30PM.
- Location: red herring press, 135 King Street, NR30 2PQ. If you have any physical accessibility (eg. you can’t use stairs) needs please note them in your booking form.
- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). This course is a nice intro to poetry for beginners. Ages 17+
- Free, but places are limited. After completing the form you will receive an email to confirm your place.
- Everyone is welcome to book, but
as always if oversubscribed then priority is given to those who live in Yarmouth.
- If the course is already full when
you register you will be added to the waiting list. At the moment, each person is restricted to 1 course, to allow for more people to enrol. Please note in the form if you’re interested in attending more than one course, and if there are still spare places closer to the course date then you’ll be able to.
- Please register with the intention to attend all 8 sessions (or as close to 8 as possible). If you realise you can no longer attend the course, please get in touch so your place can be offered to someone else.
- Any questions, email: 135redherringpress@gmail.com
Poetry & the Sea
An 8-week course reading & taking inspiration from poetic-prose texts that explore ideas on love, class, capitalism, migration, ghosts, dreamstates, & psychological paranoia through the sea, as both a powerful & banal presence in our lives.
“Poetry” should be interpreted loosely — materials looked at & made available through the course will include not only poetry, but prose, film & visual art, and we will have the chance to explore through writing our own relationships to the nearby North Sea. (For those interested in a straight-up poetry course, the Without A Form / Without Forms course above might be a better fit).
Material written during the course will be edited & published in a new pamphlet anthology later this year. There will also be the opportunity to meet with people on the other two courses to share writing.
Please read the course details carefully, and complete the form to sign up.
Course details:
- 8 weekly Wednesdays from 11th June to
28th July, 6:30PM to 8:30PM.
- Location: red herring press, 135 King Street, NR30 2PQ. If you have any physical accessibility (eg. you can’t use stairs) needs please note them in your booking form.
- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). We will be looking
at different types of writing: fiction,
non-fiction & poetry. Ages 17+
- Free, but places are limited. After completing the form you will receive an email to confirm your place.
- Everyone is welcome to book, but
as always if oversubscribed then priority is given to those who live in Yarmouth.
- If the course is already full when
you register you will be added to the waiting list. At the moment, each person is restricted to 1 course, to allow for more people to enrol. Please note in the form if you’re interested in attending more than one course, and if there are still spare places closer to the course date then you’ll be able to.
- Please register with the intention to attend all 8 sessions (or as close to 8 as possible). If you realise you can no longer attend the course, please get in touch so your place can be offered to someone else.
- Any questions, email: 135redherringpress@gmail.com
Writing Memoir, Writing Class
An 8-week course reading & taking inspiration from writers across the world who cut through clichéd representations & expectations of working class literature, instead taking unconventional, experimental & formally inventive approaches to memoir and ‘life writing’. Writers include Annie Ernaux, Faïza Guène, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Vivian Gornick, Gary Indiana, Danielle Collobert.
Material written during the course will be edited & published in a new pamphlet anthology later this year. There will also be the opportunity to meet with people on the other two courses to share writing.
Please read the course details carefully, and complete the form to sign up.
Course details:
- 8 weekly Thursdays from 12th June to
28th July, 6:30PM to 8:30PM.
- Location: red herring press, 135 King Street, NR30 2PQ. If you have any physical accessibility (eg. you can’t use stairs) needs please note them in your booking form.
- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). We will be looking
at different types of writing: fiction,
non-fiction & poetry. Ages 17+
- Free, but places are limited. After completing the form you will receive an email to confirm your place.
- Everyone is welcome to book, but
as always if oversubscribed then priority is given to those who live in Yarmouth.
- If the course is already full when
you register you will be added to the waiting list. At the moment, each person is restricted to 1 course, to allow for more people to enrol. Please note in the form if you’re interested in attending more than one course, and if there are still spare places closer to the course date then you’ll be able to.
- Please register with the intention to attend all 8 sessions (or as close to 8 as possible). If you realise you can no longer attend the course, please get in touch so your place can be offered to someone else.
- Any questions, email: 135redherringpress@gmail.com
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