When author Alan Watts was asked for advice on how to become a writer, he answered: “Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer.” Following Watts advice, over the last three weeks I have been attending a creative writing workshop with poet Erin Bolens at Clean Prose, London’s first co-working space designed specifically for writers, authors and creatives.
Erin’s workshop explores using what we know, remember and feel as springboards to generate new ideas and ways of looking at the world through poems. Erin Bolens is a poet, performer and teacher from Leeds.
She is a former Roundhouse resident artist and Glastonbury slam champion. She runs regular workshops in schools and community settings and works with The Poetry Society, Apples and Snakes, Totally Thames, The Poetry Takeaway Festival and the Roundhouse.
Her debut poetry show "What We Leave Behind" exploring loss, legacy and funeral buffets received five-star reviews and was published by Burning Eye Books. Erin is also a trainee counsellor and committed to creating a warm and welcoming writing environment where participants feel encouraged and excited to explore their own imaginations.
To sign up to the workshop, visit Eventbrite.
To learn more about Erin, read this post where I interview her for my blog.
Photo credit: portrait of Erin Bolens © 2018 JC Candanedo
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