Writing workshop and walk with Maria Howard
Sat 8 February 
11am-2pm 

Booking required – tickets available on a sliding scale

£8 | £5 | £3

Join writer and artist Maria Howard for a workshop that explores writing from site.

This February, Maria will undertake a residency at Cample. She will explore the terrain between Cample and neighbouring village Gatelawbridge and research local sandstone quarrying as part of a current project.

This will be a practical writing workshop that will take place partly outdoors on a walk developed by Maria in the vicinity of Cample. It will provide opportunities to write and make notes during and after the walk, and to reflect on the ways places can inhabit both memory and imagination.

The workshop will begin with a discussion about CAMPLE LINE and the area around Cample as a past, present and future site. Maria will then provide a series of writing prompts and lead the group on a walk that will last approximately one hour.

We will then come back to the gallery and write from our notes, with the option to share work with others. We will choose lines and extracts that will be edited together into a collaborative text piece. 

Maria will introduce Jane Rendell’s concept of ‘site-writing,’ which understands sites to be ‘material, political and conceptual’ as well as ‘remembered, dreamed and imagined’.

Anyone that would like to join the workshop but would prefer not to undertake the walk can remain at CAMPLE LINE and work with a number of resources.
A photograph of a country road which travels under an arch of a stone viaduct.
About Maria Howard
Maria Howard is a British-Italian artist based in Glasgow. Working primarily with text, writing and sculpture, her research-led practice is concerned with the relationships between memory and imagination, site and material, colonialism and climate. She is a recipient of the Gillian Purvis Trust Award for New Writing, and has been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and longlisted for the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry. She is currently a part-time PhD candidate at Glasgow School of Art and a co-editor of Nothing Personal magazine.
 

Maria will our third February resident, exploring the terrain between Cample and its neighbouring villages. Previous residents are poet, writer and zinemaker Nina Minga Powles (2023) and writer and artist Kate Morgan (2024).

These short residencies support artists, writers and makers who write in the intersections of poetry, prose and inquiry, exploring language, material, the body, terrain, landscape, personal memory, migration and colonial histories.

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Three white, striated cylinders of unfired porcelain and two brown, striated cylinders of giant hogweed stem lean side by side against a white wall. Their height ranges from a finger tall to a hand tall, and they are roughly two fingers wide.

Maria Howard, column as invasive species, 2024, unfired parian clay and dried giant hogweed stalks

Any questions? 
Email us: info[at]campleline.org.uk
Call us: 01848 331000

Meet: CAMPLE LINE, Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire DG3 5HD
Date: Saturday 8 February
Time: 11am-2pm. This includes a short break.
Cost: £8 / £5 / £3

Please refer to our sliding scale ticket guide to choose a ticket price based on what you can reasonably afford.

This writing workshop is open to all, and is suitable for those who have little or no experience writing.
It is recommended for ages 16 yrs+ 

Expect: Up to 1.5 miles gentle walking on country lane and through possibly some fields and mixed woodland, lasting 1 hour. The terrain may involve some walking off-track and may be muddy and uneven in places* 

Please dress appropriately to the conditions on the day and the planned terrain. Walking boots and outdoor, waterproof clothing are recommended. 

The planned route will be confirmed by 6 February. Please email us if you would like more details about the route the walk will take.

* Please let us know on booking if you have any access requirements, mobility issues, or relevant medical conditions.

Refreshments: We will provide tea, coffee and soft drinks at CAMPLE LINE. Please bring a packed lunch with you.

Reaching Us: If you plan to reach us by car and would be happy to car-share – or if you are interested in finding someone to car-share with – please let us know where you will be travelling from. You can find more information on how to reach us here: How to Reach Us