Ticket price: £20
This workshop takes place over two sessions on March 4 and March 11 2021, at 7pm. Participants are expected to attend both sessions.
Concessions are available for this event – please contact hcmf// Learning & Participation Officer Sophie Cooper at s.cooper@hud.ac.uk if you cannot afford a full price ticket.
When the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’, it provoked debate: are song lyrics poetry? What makes a text for music different from a text intended to be read without accompaniment? In these workshops with poet and fiction writer Helen Mort, we’ll look at techniques for effective lyric writing, creating words for music, the borders between song and poetry and how to blur them. We will focus on prompts to inspire new writing and workshop writing-in-progress.
Helen Mort an award-winning author based in Sheffield. She has published two poetry collections (Division Street and No Map Could Show Them), a debut novel (Black Car Burning) and a short story collection (Exire). She also writes drama and creative non fiction. Helen been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize in 2015. She has taught creative writing for over ten years and is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She also makes regular appearances on BBC radio and TV.
Visit Helen Mort’s website here.
This workshop is presented in partnership with Huddersfield Literature Festival
Photo (C) Emma Ledwith