Summer Creators Workshop: 7 October
Sat 7 Oct 2023 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST
Central Milton Keynes Library, MK9 3HL
Description
In the summer 2023 school holidays, Milton Keynes Literary Festival is running a programme of free weekly workshops based in central MK for young people aged 14-18yrs.
The workshops are designed to:
- give an insight into careers involving writing and publishing
- help develop creativity and writing skills
- prepare for future volunteering opportunities at the festival to develop confidence and transferable skills to build up CVs.
MK Lit Fest is dedicated to fostering a love for literature, writing, and all things word-related, and to empowering people to explore the realms of publishing, writing, screenwriting, poetry - and the vibrant local literary scene in Milton Keynes.
Our ambition is to create a space where young people can come, be inspired, collaborate with each other and create a real community of local young writers. Each week, a local writer will lead a talk about how to get into literary careers in different fields. We’ll be exploring publishing, fiction, short stories, political writing, memoir, screenwriting, and poetry.
This week's guest workshop facilitator is author and graphic novelist Paul Rainey.
Paul Rainey is a writer, artist, and cartoonist contributor to Viz Comic. He won the Observer newspaper Graphic Short Story Prize in 2020 with his entry Similar To But Not. His graphic novel, Why Don’t You Love Me?, was published by Drawn & Quarterly in January 2023. If you live in Milton Keynes, you may recognise his comic-strip murals Going Backwards and Jog On from The Centre MK.
Location
Central Milton Keynes Library, MK9 3HL