14th June 2012
Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK)
Unfortunately, this event has had to be cancelled. However, we are looking to relaunch in the Autumn term. If you would like to be kept informed about this, please get in contact and we’ll put you on our email list.
22nd May 2012
Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey)
Martha Young-Scholten ran a mini-course informing and training participants, with the view to involving them in the project and investigating the relevance of the project there.
12th May 2012
Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK)
Martha Young-Scholten held an afternoon feedback session for those who attended the previous workshop. This was an opportunity to discuss individual ideas as a group and help each other move forward to a point where the stories are ready to be published.
17th March 2012
Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK)
Martha Young-Scholten and Margaret Wilkinson gave an all day workshop to a small group of non-writers. Participants included staff and students from the university and related professionals in the local community. The workshop consisted of training in creative writing and linguistic simplification, with the hope of publishing the stories that came together through the day.
6th January 2012
‘Second Start’, New Hampshire (USA)
Martha Young-Scholten gave a two-hour workshop to 25 writers and non-writers. The participants were teachers and programme directors whose work involves the many Somali and Bhutanese refugees in southern New Hampshire.
26th January 2012
University of Granada, Granada (Spain)
Martha Young-Scholten gave a two-hour workshop to 60 undergraduate students in the Spanish Department on writing short fiction books in English. These undergraduates, from Spain and from a range of other countries including the UK and the USA, had already written a simply cracking good story in Spanish under the guidance of Marcin Sosinski,
http://wdb.ugr.es/~sosinski/
. Marcin has been creating books with his students for several years, and the books are then donated to the ACOGE Centre in Granada for enjoyment by low-literate adult immigrants to Spain.
28th September 2011
Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)
Margaret Wilkinson and Martha Young-Scholten condensed typically day long fiction writing workshops into a 90 minute taster workshop for English and Spanish fiction (with Marcin Sosinski from Granada University) at the LESLLA conference.
5th September 2011
Leipzig (Germany)
Margaret Wilkinson and Martha Young-Scholten condensed typically day long fiction writing workshops into a 90 minute taster workshop for German fiction at the EU-Speak workshop.
9th July 2011
University of Warwick, Coventry (UK)
Margaret Wilkinson and Martha Young-Scholten condensed typically day long fiction writing workshops into a 90 minute taster workshop at the annual National Association for Teaching of English and other Community Languages to Adults (NATECLA) conference.
