Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and was the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell Award and has been shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Women’s Prize. Her debut poetry collection Peach Pig was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October. Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta and The White Review. She curated the anthology Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When You Really Need Them, published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel Little Boxes is published by The Borough Press (2023). In 2023, Little Boxes was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award. She teaches creative writing at City Lit, the Roundhouse and in several London secondary schools.
How To Teach Creative Writing: Inspire, engage, empower
How do you inspire a love of words in others? How do you use your own creativity to help others engage with literature? How can teaching creative writing make you reflect on your own creative practice?
This special weekend residential course aims to enable you to enhance your skillset as a teacher of creative writing and equip yourself with techniques and approaches to engage a variety of audiences. The course will also be an opportunity for you to understand how to mine your own practice as you consider the practicalities of tutoring and inspiring a group in a safe, nurturing and creative environment.
Join highly respected poet and experienced creative writing facilitator, Cecilia Knapp as she unpicks the writing and teaching process from start to finish and shares methods you can apply to your own workshops and practice. You’ll also be joined by former teacher and current university lecturer Ashley Hickson-Lovence for a lively online guest reading which is sure to inspire and educate. Through group sessions and discussions, and a series of creative writing prompts, you will gain the confidence and skills required to help design and deliver creative writing workshops with an impact.
Bursaries
One £150 bursary space is available for this course. To apply, please complete this application form Deadline for applications: Sunday 9 March 2025
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Tutor
Cecilia Knapp
Guest Reader
Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Digital)
Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a poet, novelist and university lecturer with a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The 392 (OWN IT!, 2019), Your Show (Faber, 2022) - longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards - and Wild East (Penguin, 2024), a young adult verse novel. He is currently editing his latest novel About to Fall Apart and his debut poetry collection Why I am Not a Bus Driver. He grew up in London but now lives in Norwich.