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Course 13

BREATHING IN: Prose and Poetry
August 30 - September 4 • Menna Elfyn and Pamela Petro
Guest: Jan Morris

Residential: £525 (single); £450 (shared) 

What inspires us to write in the first place? Inspiration is the elusive spark that ignites every poem, essay, article, and full-length manuscript. In this course we'll look at the varied sources of writerly inspiration: memories, chance encounters, anecdotes, jokes, dreams, spells, travel, the particularities of place, even the visual arts. How do we translate inspiring images to words on the page? How do we mine the beauty of landscape with our pens? With these questions as guides each participant will embark on a literary adventure, with course leaders navigating the tricky terrain between the writer's inspiration and his or her destination.

Inspiration also means "to breathe in." Come to Ty Newydd to take a deep breath, to be inspired, to inspire others and conspire with them, and finally, to crack open "inspiration" once and for all and discover the stories within.

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MENNA ELFYN Poet, author of over 20 books, is also a playwright and librettist and has written eight plays for stage, five radio plays along with  two plays for television. In 1997, she published Perffaith Nam/Perfect Blemish (Bloodaxe Books) and was one of the 30 poets chosen by Bloodaxe to appear in In Person ( 2008). She won a Creative Arts award to write about sleep in 2008. She is a Royal Literary Fellow at Swansea University and Director of the MA Creative Writing at Trinity University, Carmarthen. 

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PAMELA PETRO is an American writer and artist with a long association with Wales. After learning to speak Welsh (haltingly!) on the Wlpan course, she wrote her first book of travel literature, Travels in an Old Tongue, about speaking Welsh around the world. She has authored two other travel books, Sitting up with the Dead, about the American South, and The Slow Breath of Stone, set in Southwest France. She has also written for publications from The New York Times to Granta, and as an artist works with environmental installations of photographs printed on stone. www.petrographs.blogspot.com

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Residential: £525 (single) - deposit of £100 will be taken
Residential: £450 (shared) - deposit of £100 will be taken
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