I’ve developed a short online writing course based on workshops I facilitated during a writing residency at Rhubaba, an arts organisation in Glasgow. More information about the residency is available here: https://rhubaba.org/programme/lola-olufemi-writers-residency
Are you working on a long term writing project and feeling stuck? Struggling to start? This short course aims to help writers at all stages of a project reanimate the writing process by examining the stylistic tools used by a range of poets, well as fiction and non-fiction writers, with a specific focus on experimentation.
Each session will begin with a short reflection on form or style. We’ll discuss a range of texts (literary, academic, artistic) and engage in collective writing/ reading to examine their stylistic conventions. The aim of these sessions is to breathe life back into existing projects or generate ideas for new ones by honing skills, thinking and writing collectively. Participants should come prepared to discuss and share some aspect of their existing project or the seeds of a future project. You do not have to be a published writer or have started a project to attend this course.
This course will require reading outside of sessions and short exercises to be completed in between sessions. All participants will receive a detailed outline of the course by Wednesday 28th February 2025.
Are you working on a long term writing project and feeling stuck? Struggling to start? This short course aims to help writers at all stages of a project reanimate the writing process by examining the stylistic tools used by a range of poets, well as fiction and non-fiction writers, with a specific focus on experimentation.
Each session will begin with a short reflection on form or style. We’ll discuss a range of texts (literary, academic, artistic) and engage in collective writing/ reading to examine their stylistic conventions. The aim of these sessions is to breathe life back into existing projects or generate ideas for new ones by honing skills, thinking and writing collectively. Participants should come prepared to discuss and share some aspect of their existing project or the seeds of a future project. You do not have to be a published writer or have started a project to attend this course.
This course will require reading outside of sessions and short exercises to be completed in between sessions. All participants will receive a detailed outline of the course by Wednesday 28th February 2025.
Course Information:
***PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE IS NOW SOLD OUT***
Number of Participants: 10 participants (max) on a first come first served basis.
Pricing: £100 (minimum) -£120 (maximum) – Please pay what you are able.
Wednesday 5th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
Wednesday 12th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
Wednesday 19th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
Number of Participants: 10 participants (max) on a first come first served basis.
Pricing: £100 (minimum) -£120 (maximum) – Please pay what you are able.
Wednesday 5th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
Wednesday 12th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
Wednesday 19th March 2025 - 6:30-8:30pm GMT (Zoom)
To book, please email lolaolufemi1996[@]gmail.com or get in touch via the contact form on this website.
Picture of letter from James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry begging her to read his “not very pretty” novel and give him feedback, taken at the Schomburg Centre’s Exhibition: JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth. All writers are the same.