We’ll be exploring how audio can be used to help us better understand the concept of structure – and how we can create a structure that responds to our stories’ needs.
This workshop is a playful challenge, which will encourage us to interrogate our relationship to ‘dramatic structure’ and ‘form’ through close listening exercises of sonic stories, reflection, discussion and curiosity. We will consider how we maximise the use of sound and music in our creative writing process and how it can inspire new thinking around building our own narrative structure, using graphic scores.
What will you do in the workshop?
Yasmine Dankwah will be leading reflective discussions based on an audio-documentary and a Stevie Wonder song, which will be sent in advance of the session. We will use these to explore the concepts of sonic: image, extended metaphor and structure.
What can participants expect?
By the end of the workshop, we will leave with a broader understanding of how different sonic forms of storytelling can inform our writing, the beginnings of a graphic score, and a banging playlist co-created by the participants involved in the session.
The handout will include definitions of concepts we will explore such as, dramatic structure, form, sonic fiction and sonic metaphor. These will include references to academic writers such as Kodwo Eshun, Holger Schulze and Elizabeth Ursic
Who is this opportunity for?
Whether you’re at the beginning of your writing journey or redrafting, this workshop is for anyone who’s interested in the conversation that happens between sound, writing and play.
Bursary places
We have 5 free bursary places available for writers on a low income. We define this as either earning on or below the London Living Wage and/or in receipt of benefits (e.g. Universal Credit). If you would like to request a bursary place, please email [email protected] with details of your eligibility for a bursary by 18 February 2026.
Access
If you require BSL interpretation, and/or have other access needs please email [email protected] so we can accommodate you.
Published: Thursday 11 September
About the tutor
Yasmine Dankwah
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Yasmine Dankwah is a British Ghanaian neurodivergent writer, spoken word artist and sound designer born, bred and based in South-West London. Inspired by her parents’ collection of CDs, she uses spoken word, theatre and sound as mediums to archive everyday rituals of joy that can unwittingly be seen as creative forms of resistance amongst Black-Brits. As a writer she’s been featured in Siobhan Davies, IQ and Notion Magazine. As a playwright, she has been part of the Emerging Writing groups run by Bush Theatre, London Library, Soho Theatre and the North Wall’s Catalyst residency. Her debut play, ‘rite to party’ was longlisted for the Tony Craze Award in 2022 and shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2025. As a sound designer, her credits include: I used to know H.I.M (audio, 2023), Tea Leaves by Claudia Fielding (Old Red Lion, 2024) and BURST by Soria Hamidi (Arcola Theatre, 2024).