Saturday 16 August
1-3pm
Creative writing workshop with Carolyn Hashimoto
Booking required
Tickets on a sliding scale: £5 | £3.50 | £2
This August, Dumfries-based writer Carolyn Hashimoto will lead a creative writing workshop at CAMPLE LINE that takes the artworks in our summer exhibitions as its starting point.
Carolyn will introduce and explore ekphrastic writing – a writing technique that takes artworks as a subject matter and source of inspiration. It can also refer to the skill of describing a thing – an object, a painting, anything – in vivid detail. Join Carolyn to explore and enjoy this highly accessible, imaginative, and thought-provoking method of creative writing.
What to expect: Carolyn will begin the workshop with a brief introduction to the technique of ekphrasis, followed by a look at some ekphrastic poems and different approaches writers can take when responding to works of art.
Carolyn will then lead the group through our two current exhibitions, providing prompts to inspire creative written responses to works by both Lotte Gertz and Bryony Rose. After exploring the exhibition the group will come together to write and share work and reflect on the experience of writing in this way.
Who is it for? The workshop will be for all abilities. No previous experience of writing is required. Recommended age 16+
What to bring: All materials will be provided.
Refreshments: There will be a short break in the session, and we will provide refreshments. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when you book.
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Any questions?
Email us: info[at]campleline.org.uk
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About Carolyn Hashimoto
Carolyn Hashimoto has worn many hats. After living and working as an ESL teacher in Japan for 20 years she returned to her home in Dumfries and Galloway where she worked as a tour guide, waitress and a local newspaper reporter before studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. During her time as a student she founded Skirting Around – a journal that explores the politics and social and cultural issues that surround women’s clothing.
Carolyn is the author of two collections of poetry The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown (OrangeApple Press, 2021) and COW (Osmosis Press, 2022) and her work has appeared Gutter, 3:AM Magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn, Tentacular and perverse. In 2022 she was one of six emerging writers selected to work on the Dumfries public art project The High Street Multiverse with The Stove.
