Creative writing workshops

Creative writing workshops are intended for those who wish to use the language with greater vitality and who are willing to expose their work to a rather different ‘audience’ from the one with which they are accustomed to work and study.
They aim to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence that will encourage participants to write in a way they had not considered themselves capable of before and to learn from the writing of others.

Contact

	Presentation of the workshop to be run in English
		Creative Writing Workshop The workshop provides a safe space where participants can learn specific tools and strategies to help people question the means they have employed to express their ideas in written form and to distinguish between what they aim to write on the page and what they have actually written. It is intended to help participants discriminate between analytical discourse and creative writing and to acquire particular skills for the construction of narratives. Each three-hour workshop is based on a specific theme and focused on a specific technique that illustrates the structures underlying convincing prose, the means used to control differing points of view, and the deployment of both rational and metaphorical forms of logic. Monthly writing assignments are based on texts taken from English language writers and from the work of foreign authors translated into English. A good grasp of spoken English is essential.
	Practical information on the workshop to be run in English
		The Workshop takes place at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1 rue de l’Académie 67000 Strasbourg.
About the teacher of the workshop to be run in English
		The workshop is conducted by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, a Persian-born English novelist, based in Strasbourg and affiliated with the Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg. Her recent publications include: The Saddlebag, a novel, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK. February 2000 (trans. into nine languages) Les Cinq Rêves du Scribe, a novel about distorting original texts, in translation, Actes Sud (2003) Paper: the original novel, about the danger of copying texts, Bloomsbury (August 2004) The woman who read too much (in press, 2008)