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‘Jagged Edges’ Exhibition Accompanying Events
Writing into Hope: Creative Writing Workshop with Kate Fox, Inspired by ‘Jagged Edges’
4th November @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Join experienced creative writing facilitator Kate Fox for a welcoming and inspiring writing session. This workshop is suitable for everyone – whether you have no experience or some experience of creative writing.
Inspired by the ‘Jagged Edges’ exhibition, we’ll use writing about images and objects to explore hope and resistance to despair, grief, and trauma in our own lives and in the world today.
Through individual writing exercises, participants will respond to a prompt for a set period of time and then combine their lines to create a group collage poem. This session will focus on exploring writing in a nurturing environment, incorporating breaks and pauses for reflection and introspection. There will be no pressure to share work out loud, but participants will have opportunities to do so if they wish.
This session will take place in the Cathedral’s Education Room, which is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any questions or find that you can no longer attend, please email Dr Maggi Creese, Lead Officer, Chaplaincy to Survivors – m.creese@newcastle.anglican.org
About Kate Fox:
Kate Fox is a stand-up poet, spoken word artist and broadcaster. She is a regular contributor to Radio 4’s spoken word cabaret ‘The Verb’, has made two comedy series for Radio 4, been Poet in Residence for the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run and completed a PhD in stand-up comedy. She is the author of ‘Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: True Stories of the North of England’s Women’ published by Harper North, and poetry collections including ‘On Sycamore Gap’ (Harper North, 2024), ‘Bigger On the Inside’ (Smokestack Books, 2024) and ‘The Oscillations’ (Nine Arches Press, 2021). She is also a neurodivergent advocate whose latest show, ‘Bigger on the Inside’, explores neurodiversity through the lens of Doctor Who.
