Writers' Network - Permission to Play: Building creative resilience and finding joy

Writers Network - Permission to Play: Building creative resilience and finding joy
The Writers' Block, The Ladder, Clinton Road, Redruth, TR15 2QE
6pm 25 March 6pm
Free but please book!

Struggling to find joy in your creative practice?Feeling a little lost following writing rejection?Or perhaps you just need some permission to play? Come join us for our next Writers’ Block Network event on cultivating creative resilience whilst holding on to a sense of ‘play’ in our practice.

Writing can be very solitary, but it doesn’t have to be lonely. In this uplifting and engaging session, we will explore what play looks like in our writing practice, where we can find joy and how we can build up a sense of creative resilience. 

Led by Lucy Beckley, a writer, poet and creative writing facilitator based in Cornwall. Her work has been published in 26 Places in Cornwall, Motherscope, Popshot Magazine, Lionheart Magazine, Blood Moon Poetry, the southwester, A Thousand Word Photos, The Lit Platform, Reasons to be Cheerful, Strike Magazine and The Little Book of Positive Birth Stories, amongst others. She has performed for the Mum Poem Press, for SproutSpoken, on BBC Upload and at Tunes in the Park Festival.Her poetry has been shortlisted in the Renard Press New Beginnings Competition 2021, in the Dementia Together Magazine’s poetry competition 2023 and in the Benjamin Zephaniah Future Writers Competition 2024. In 2022 and 2024, she was a writer/performer for SproutSpoken with their production of You Are Here.She has a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from Cambridge University, an MA in Professional Writing from Falmouth University and an MA in European Cultures from Birkbeck University. She regularly runs workshops for adults, children and organisations and loves to help inspire others to find the joy and magic in writing.