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With growing popularity of literary festivals and spoken word events, writers are often required to TELL their work. Similarly, storytellers often want to develop their tales in a written form. But to write and to tell are two very different art forms.
As a writer, this course will show you what to adapt to be able to tell your tale.
As a storyteller, this course will show you how to adapt your oral story for the page.
This five-day course will introduce you to the Drut’syla midrash – the hereditary training of traditional Jewish women storytellers.
Shonaleigh and Simon Heywood will lead you through a range of practical exercises and creative explorations of narrative and story. We will explore ways in which the Drut’syla’s methods and approaches can be adapted practically to creative writing, storytelling and the contemporary arts. You will gain the tools to tell your story in whatever medium you choose.
This course is suitable for creatives from any discipline who use narrative or story as inspiration. It is suitable for story-lovers at any stage of their creative journey.
Details of the 2025 Word Dancing are here.