Self & Society - Full Day Writing Workshop + food + drink + a free book.

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Hi there ✨

WHOEVER you are, you’re warmly invited to join us for a full-day creative writing workshop ✍️with food & drink 🍴☕🍷, literary handouts 📖, and a little fun thrown in for good measure 🎉

Together, we’ll be exploring Self & Society: how inner lives meet outer worlds,how we’re shaped by the places, cultures, and systems we move through,and how writing can help us notice, question, and respond.

This day isn’t just about poetry (though poetry is welcome). We’ll also work with prose, philosophy, memoir, fragments, and hybrid forms, reading widely, writing freely, and following curiosity wherever it leads.

By the end of the day, you’ll leave with a body of new writing, ideas sparked, drafts begun, and plenty to keep working with long after the workshop ends.

### What do we mean by Self & Society? 🤔

We’re interested in writing that asks questions like:

• What does it mean to live a life from the inside, in a shared world?
• How do private thoughts and public realities shape one another?
• Where do personal experience and wider culture meet?
• And how can writing help us see and speak more clearly?

We’ll read short extracts from poets, essayists, philosophers, and storytellers who engage with these questions, then experiment with their approaches through guided writing exercises.

No dogma. No right answers. Just enquiry, attention, and honest language.

### So, what’s the plan? 🗓️

• Start the day with teas/coffees ☕ and a gentle warm-up writing session ✍️
• Break for lunch 🥐 at the Broadway Cinema
• Settle into reading, conversation, supported exploration, and lots more writing 💬
• Wind down with a late afternoon/early evening drink 🍺🍷🥤

### What’s included? 🎁

• A full day of creative writing workshops & exercises ✨
• Tea or coffee to start ☕
• A Broadway Cinema pub lunch 🥗
• A late-afternoon/early-evening drink 🍻
• Thoughtful literary handouts 📄
• A FREE Penguin Mini Classic 📚🐧 for every participant: yours to take home and keep

### What do you need to bring? 🎒

• Yourself 🙌
• A pen & pad 🖊️📓 (or a laptop 💻 if you prefer)

### Our style 🌱

We create a friendly, supportive, and inclusive atmosphere 💜Everybody is welcome — no experience necessary 🌈

There’s no pressure to share or perform in front of the group 🙅‍♂️You can take part quietly, actively, or anywhere in between.
If you have any doubts or questions, feel free to text me on📱 +44 (0) 7534 981 636 and I’ll do my best to help.

Warm wishes 🌞,

Sean
A Write & a Pint