Holding Space Workshop: GHT Creative Writing Group

Community, Event, Free, In Person, Workshops

Saturday 27th July 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm

God's House Tower: Town Quay Road, Southampton SO14 2NY

The GHT Creative Writing Group returns for Anna Bunting-Branch’s new commission ‘Holding Space’!

Led by Susmita Bhattacharya, the GHT Creative Writing Group offers a series of free writing workshops using our contemporary art programme as the stimulus for creativity. For this workshop, Susmita will be exploring different forms of flash fiction. Beginners welcome!

Outcomes from this workshop will be collated and displayed amongst the exhibition.

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A little bit about the author & facilitator:

Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer whose debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian) was longlisted at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018. Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing) won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection and was serialised on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She mentors underrepresented writers through the Middle Way Mentoring Scheme and is co-founder of the Write Beyond Borders Mentoring Project and the ACE funded ‘Bridges not Borders’ project. She is a multidisciplinary artist who does several writing and art projects in schools and the community in the Solent region.

You can sign up for the workshop HERE.