Summer 2026 Creative Writing Programme
** PLEASE NOTE: each person is limited to enrolling in 1 course **
Documentary Poetry
A 6-week course exploring documentary poetry: an approach that uses materials such as articles, archives, interviews and oral testimony, photography and other sources as part of the poetry itself. Documentary poetry can swing between the abstract and the concrete — not simply a ‘genre’ but a political and social practice, rooted in the relationship between the world and our place in it, often using techniques such as collage, montage, fragmentation and repetition.
On the course we will read work by Muriel Rukeyser, Mark Nowak, C.D. Wright, Solmaz Sharif, M. NourbeSe Philip, and others. We will also work on our own documentary poetry projects — following our individual interests.
Material written during the course will be published in a pamphlet anthology, launched at a public reading later in the year.
Please read the course details carefully, and complete the form to sign up.
Course details:
- 6 weekly Wednesdays from 10th June to
15th July, 6:30PM to 8:30PM.
- Location: red herring press, 135 King Street, NR30 2PQ. If you have any accessibility needs (eg. you can’t use stairs) please note them in your form.
- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). Ages 17+
- The 6 week course costs £20, which will go towards the publishing costs of the course anthology pamphlet. Payment can be made during the first class.
- Places are limited. Everyone is welcome to register, but if oversubscribed then priority is given to those who live in Yarmouth. You must complete the form in order to enrol. If the course is already full you will be added to the waiting list.
- Please register with the intention to attend all 6 sessions. 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
The Night and Class
Who occupies the night? Who works through the night, who stays up sleepless, and whose waking hours does the night occupy in return? A 6-week course taking inspiration from creative writing, visual art and cinema that explores ideas of the night, and its relationship to class.
Over 6 weeks we’ll reflect on labour histories and night work, desire and drift, darkness, state surveillance, domesticity and gendered labour, altered experiences of time, and dreamwork — exploring the writing of Clarice Lispector, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, Mahmoud Darwish, Émile Zola, Sean Bonney, and others; and the cinema of Chantal Akerman, Mike Leigh, Robina Rose, the Berwick Street Collective, and David Lynch.
Material written during the course will be published in a pamphlet anthology, launched at a public reading later in the year.
Please read the course details carefully, and complete the form to sign up.
Course details:
- 6 weekly Thursdays from 11th June to
16th July, 6:30PM to 8:30PM.
- Location: red herring press, 135 King Street, NR30 2PQ. If you have any accessibility needs (eg. you can’t use stairs) please note them in your form.
- All experiences of writing welcome (including none!). Ages 17+
- The 6 week course costs £20, which will go towards the publishing costs of the course anthology pamphlet. Payment can be made during the first class.
- Places are limited. Everyone is welcome to register, but if oversubscribed then priority is given to those who live in Yarmouth. You must complete the form in order to enrol. If the course is already full you will be added to the waiting list.
- Please register with the intention to attend all 6 sessions. 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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