With Paul Dodgson and the Professional Writing Academy
We’ll start by mind-mapping the stories in your body – the scar on your knee, the chickenpox mark on your forehead – looking at how each one is a mini life story. You’ll work up one story, looking at the narrative of events linked to it, and blitzing associated memories to add detail. Along the way we’ll look at extracts from memoirs to see how a small element from a single life can be amplified to tell an epic story everyone can connect with.
Tickets £15 per person, strictly limited numbers.
Facilitator
Paul Dodgson
Paul has produced 400 programmes for BBC radio, helping people tell the stories of their lives, and is best known for his memoir plays for BBC Radio 4. He is exec producer for the New Creatives project for the BBC/Arts Council, developing new writing and broadcasting talent. Paul has taught life writing at universities and literary festivals across the UK, Europe and Canada, was writer-in-residence at Exeter University and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Bristol University.
Paul’s book On the Road Not Taken, a memoir about the power of music (Unbound) was published last year.
B is for body
Paul Dodgson
