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1 - 2 May 2005
Hazelwood House, Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge, South Devon TQ7 4EB
Tel: 01548 821232
Email: info@hazelwoodhouse.com
URL: www.hazelwoodhouse.com
What sort of writer are you?

What sort of writer do you dream of becoming?

Have you found your writing voice?

If you have not written before, do you want to find out what that voice might be?

This writing workshop is an inward journey to free the imagination and develop the voice that is uniquely your own. The cave of the unconscious mind is the place of intuition and insight beyond the laws of logic. In this fact or fiction workshop we will be accessing this cave where the imagination lives.

This journey of self-discovery will include:

* 2 daily writing sessions to access the conscious and unconscious mind
* techniques to start writing/develop work already in progress
* a chance to create work that may lead to longer pieces of prose/poetry
* the opportunity to have writing done in the workshop discussed (voluntary)
* "Open Mic" session where work may be read which has already been written
* one-to-one tutorials*

The workshop will be conducted in a friendly, constructive atmosphere and is open to anyone with a desire to write, from beginners to more experienced writers. Early booking is advised as places are limited.

Course instructor, Anne Aylor, is a writer and founder of Ulysses' Cave Creative Writing Courses. She has had short stories and poems published by the Arts Council of Great Britain, The Literary Review, Stand, London Magazine and broadcast on BBC radio. Her play, Children of the Dust, won a playwrighting award and was staged in the West End. No Angel Hotel, her first novel, was published by William Collins and Grafton Books. She has recently completed her second, The Double Happiness Company, and is working on her third.

FEES & BOOKING
Fee: £180, inclusive of 2 nights' shared accommodation (Saturday, 30 April & Sunday, 1 May), continental breakfast, light lunch and 2-course evening meal
Deposit: £35 to reserve your place
Registration deadline: 22 April 2005

TO PAY
A deposit of £35 is necessary to reserve your place. Full payment is due by 17 April 2005. At the time of booking, please indicate if you are a vegetarian or if you have any special dietary requirements. Cheques should be made payable to Ulysses' Cave, 46 Beversbrook Road, London N19 4QH. Please include your phone, address and email so we may confirm your booking.

*Should you wish to have private tuition, a limited number of tutorials can be booked for Saturday, 30 April. As this is outside course time, there is an additional charge of £36 per hour (or £18 per half hour).

"Set in 67 acres of woodland, Hazelwood House is a place to escape the pressures of life, yet with a range of leisure activities in and around the house. With log fires to curl up in front of in winter and a long shady veranda to relax on in summer, guests know from the moment they arrive that they are off the beaten track in more ways than one." Guardian, 11 August 2001

If you have any queries regarding this workshop, please phone 020 7263 0669 or email Anne Aylor at aayloracu@aol.com

See www.ulyssescave.co.uk for details of the next Ulysses' Cave creative writing course.

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

'Just a note to say how very much I enjoyed the workshop. Such a different style to any others I've been to, and very, very successful. It's rare for me to say this, but I actually produced something at every exercise that I feel could be turned into a finished product. I also really admired your sympathetic and helpful approach and you had some extraordinary people there, with extraordinary stories.' Anne Ballard

'The experience was totally amazing. I've been writing for almost thirty years and came up with material I have never been in touch with before.' Margaret Walsh

'I had a wonderful time at the course. The classes made me write from the heart. Listening to other people's work was a joy. Anne is a great teacher!' Nicki Gilmour

'You created a wonderful atmosphere and then filled it full of inspiring ideas.' Jane Sebba

'I found Anne's Ulysses' Cave workshops friendly, fascinating & productive. Friendly cos is Anne is very warm & supportive. Fascinating cos of a comprehensivity of approach: a wide range of styles, forms & themes was embraced, as was an awareness of the differing roots of creativity, the conscious & unconscious. Also fascinating was watching the precision of her on-the-spot-evaluations of participants' pieces generated by her writing exercises. Productive cos one of the exercises got me in touch with a feeling/memory very familiar, but never previously written down. I was able to use this to finish a larger piece that had been dormant for 20 years.' Neil Devlin

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