TellingY/Ourstory.S.2

workshop with Amal Chatterjee

We’ve all got stories to tell, in our heads, or of ourselves, our families, of places and worlds we’ve been to or imagine.

Following the successful series last year, a new series of writing workshops, once again led by experienced fiction and prose tutor Amal Chatterjee. All welcome, no experience necessary.

Beginners – even if you haven’t written before, or even thought about it, these workshops will help you discover the stories you want to tell, and how to tell them;
Writers – If you have work on the go, you’ll get to explore how you can tell what you are working on.

At the end of the series, you will have a story – or stories – well under way, ready to develop and work on, on your own or with others.

Join us!

• In Session 1, on Sunday, 21th September, we will begin by looking at where stories come from, and how we can begin stories, thinking about themes, people and places, and what attracts us and readers;
• In Session 2, on Sunday, 2nd November, we will work on how to structure stories, and how to hold the attention of readers, working with form and how to reveal – and conceal;
• In Session 3, on Sunday, 7th December we’ll take work-in-progress, revise, workshop, develop and polish.

Come to one, two or all three sessions.

(Languages: the workshop will be in English, you can work on stories in Dutch or other languages, depending on how many others are working in those languages.)

Amal Chatterjee

Amal Chatterjee is an author and creative writing tutor based in Amsterdam and Oxford. His writing includes novels, books on history and the state of the world, short stories, theatre plays, and  articles. Besides writing, he teaches writing, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford in the UK.

Amal teaches, develops and coordinates various academic and creative writing programs and courses amongst others at the Paris Institute of Critical Thinking’s Creative Writing programme, the VU Taalcentrum, the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, and the NIAS (the Netherlands Institute for Arts and Sciences).

Would you like to join this program, but currently don’t have the means to buy a ticket? Send an e-mail to info@denieuweliefde.com to work something out.