Writing and Well-being Weekend

Fri 25 October 2024 - Sun 27 October 2024

Tutors / clare e. potter & Iola Ynyr

Course Fee / From £375 per person

Genres / Health & Well-beingNon-FictionScriptwriting

Language / BilingualEnglishWelsh

How can writing and creativity support our health and well-being? How can language and words help us explore our feelings, identify our anxieties, and better understand our place in the world? During this revitalizing and instructive weekend course, you will be invited to respond to various creative pieces spanning across poetry and theatre. Alongside expanding your literary context, you’ll be encouraged to engage in your own writing with an aim to connect with yourself and others. The tutors, experienced writers and facilitators clare e. potter and Iola Ynyr will also be on-hand to share best practice when it comes to designing and delivering creative writing workshops for health and well-being purposes in various community settings.

The tutors will nurture a supportive, safe, and inclusive space where you’ll be encouraged to express yourself creatively as you form a new network of likeminded writers and practitioners. There will also be time to explore the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of Tŷ Newydd to help deepen your connection with nature and find a sense of peace.

The course welcomes both professional writers and people with no prior experience of writing. The course is also suitable for practitioners interested in using their learning to help others, for example as facilitators of creative writing groups.

This is a bilingual course, and the tutors will be on-hand to support both Welsh and English-speaking participants.

Tutors

clare e. potter

clare e. potter is a Welsh-speaking writer and performer. Her awards include two Literature Wales Writers’ Bursaries, the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language. She has translated the work of the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work and performed at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival, USA. She also studied and taught in New Orleans for a decade. Her current focus is on well-being and learning through nature and she has had several residencies and commissions to create work around these themes. Thanks to Arts Council funding, clare is learning poetry therapy practice. Early in 2023 she will be presenting two BBC radio programmes about poetry. Her second collection was written with thanks to a Literature Wales Writers’ Bursary and a grant from the Society of Authors and will be published in 2024.

Iola Ynyr

In June 2024, Iola Ynyr published a creative memoir with Y Lolfa, Camu (2024). She contributed to the volume Un yn Ormod, an anthology about the experiences of individuals and their relationship with alcohol, published again by Y Lolfa in 2021. She has also published an article in Issue 6: Pontydd (Bridges), Codi Pais 2020. Her play Anne Frank was published by Gomer in 2013. Another of her plays, C'laen in the anthology Nid ar chwarae bach was published by the Arts Council of Wales as a series of eight educational theatre plays in 2005.

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