Responsive Writing with Claire Collison  

How do words influence pictures - and how do images impact on language? What stories do photographs tell - and what secrets do they keep? And how can we begin to put into words our feelings about events we have not personally experienced?

This one-day creative writing workshop will take its inspiration from the Sublime Image of Destruction exhibition. Using a variety of practical exercises and working closely with the photographs on display, we will explore a range of ways that photography can be used to trigger your own writing.

About the Workshop Leader

Claire Collison spent many years as a photographic artist before becoming a writer. Her novel Treading Water (Polygon) was a finalist in the Dundee Book Prize. Her short stories have been awarded various prizes; including Woman's Own, Virago/Marie Claire and the Bridport Prize. She teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College, and was recently Artist in Residence at Brockwell Park Lido.