This event is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email [email protected] with your name, email address and phone number, and call the email ‘Leone Ross workshop request’. We’ll be in touch if a space arises.

Are you the kind of reader or writer who admires detail on the page? Are you inspired by descriptive prose, original ideas and evocative specificity?

Perhaps you’d really like to write using your senses – smell, sound, touch, taste, sight – but you’re not sure how to begin. Or maybe you’ve been trying to imbue your work with colourful energy for a while, but you’re not sure how to assess your efforts!

This three hour workshop will provide practical ways to concentrate, capture detail and edit the sentences inspired from that mindful process.

We will consider not only our favourite senses, but those we pay attention to less frequently; the construction of the ‘sensory sentence’; the use of figurative language and juxtaposition; and how to use attention and specificity to avoid cliches.

We will examine the work of some of the best sensory writers, including Toni Morrison, Annie Proulx and Shivanee Ramlochan.

The workshop is suitable for all adults, working in prose or poetry; while best for those who have already begun to write, it will be helpful for all writers at beginner or intermediary levels.

We will spend part of the session outside, with a choice of several nearby sites/spaces in Deptford, with safe options for varied physical abilities.

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