Oxford Writers Wheel x OCCAC: Writing Family

02/11/2024

10:30

Oxford Writers Wheel x OCCAC: Writing Family

Free writing workshop for young writers aged 16-19

Oxford Writers Wheel Creative Writing Workshop on writing family

How do you write about your close ones, the people you grew up with or nurture you? How do your family experiences and memories shape your present self?

Come along to explore the ways you can rethink and put on the page your family-inspired stories and poems, giving shape to powerful memories from home.

Tutor's bio: Jennifer Wong is the author of several collections including Letters Home (Nine Arches Press) and a pamphlet, time difference (Verve Poetry Press). She is the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury) and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve).

Saturday 2nd November, 10.30-12.30, Caper Book Shop, 74-77 Magdalen Road, Oxford.

This workshop is jointly organised by the Oxfordshire Chinese Community Advice Centre (OCCAC)

Workshop open to participants aged 13-19. Under 18's must have parental consent.

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