Creative Writing Courses with Linda Cleary at Diwan Zamalek & Diwan Heliopolis

The new roll out of Creative Writing courses will start Wednesday 13th February in Zamalek and Saturday 16th February in Heliopolis. Please see the poster for all details and how to register.  Advance registration necessary - places go fast!

Spoken Word Performance & Music at Artellewa presented by The Writers' Centre

Spoken Word
&
guest musicians
Tuesday January 22nd at  7pm to 10pm

part of the
Radio Lewa project
at
artellewa آرت اللوا
19, Mohamed Ali Al Eseary
Ard El Lewa - Giza - Egypt.
web: www.artellewa.com

We are very pleased to invite you to a Spoken Word reading/performance

by the 12 writers who took part in the workshop on Dreams & Writing

run by Linda Cleary last week on Radio Lewa

There will also be a small presentation of some of Linda Cleary's spoken word/audio work

with Kemoslang Mohamed Kamal

Some writers will deliver their work in an improvised fusion with several guest musicians,

whilst others will read 'straight'.

Presentations of Spoken Word by

Omar Refaat, Chitra Kalyani, Nina El Shabrawy, Nihal Wahby, Mehra Magd, Abeer Ali, Mina Sonbol, Monda Mahmoud, Samia Salama, Mona Yassin, Mohamed Yahia, Katharina Goetze

and Linda Cleary with Kemoslang Mohamed Kamal

Also appearing - musicians Joerg Koeppel, Mirjam Burgin , Mariam Shalaan

Others to be confirmed

Map here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10150222030741759&type=1

Still time to register! Creative Writing Course starting this Saturday at Diwan Heliopolis

Still time to register! Courses starting this Saturday and Wednesday. The Zamalek course is FULL. Still spaces on the Heliopolis one!! :)) Go into Diwan Heliopolis to register!

Advanced Creative Writing course will START Sunday January 27th

And!!! The Advanced Creative Writing course will START Sunday January 27th – Read on for all details and how to register
*Registration must be in advance of course date

Advanced Creative Writing Course
with Linda Cleary

10 hour course in Advanced Creative Writing – LE 720
4 sessions of 2 ½ hours each
(Sundays 7pm to 9.30pm)

starting Sunday 27th January at 7pm
at El Mesa7a Art & Culture Center
Dokki

Places limited to 12 people

Course outline
This course is for those people who have completed the first course(s) with me
and for new students with demonstrated abilities.

It is an intense 4 session course with further creative writing writing exercises and discussion
to strengthen description, atmosphere and imagery;
we also work on several key topics each week such as contemporizing myth in writing, symbolism and surrealism,
writing creative non fiction and strengthening editing skills
by working on review and critique as well as discussion and individual work.

Advance registration necessary at:

El Mesa7a Art & Culture Center
13 El-Mesaha St. Dokki, Gizah
http://www.elmesa7a.org/

For times to drop in and register:

Call the Senior Co-ordinator Hany Adly on: 01111899998 or 01279305877

or

SEND A SMS to either of those numbers
with your name and the words 'Advanced course' and he will call you back.

or

Email him on: hanyadly@elmesa7a.org

Short Story course starting Monday 21st January at Diwan Heliopolis!

For previous students of mine or those specifically interested in writing story then there is also still time to register for the Short Story course starting Monday 21st January at Diwan Heliopolis!!! Increase the skills you learnt on the first course and write your own short story!

Short Story Course
with Linda Cleary

for those who completed the 4 week Creative Writing course or who have proven writing skills. This course focuses on work on character, voice, atmosphere and plot and we continue with further creative writing expansion techniques.
We also read published short stories for discussion and understanding format, focusing on the necessary elements for each student to produce a final draft of a 1000 word narrative.

4 weeks (8 hour course)
One session per week (2 hour session) on Mondays
Starting Monday 21st January
from 7:30 pm till 9:30 pm
at Diwan Heliopolis

Only 10 places available.

Price: 480 L.E
Limited number - please register in advance at Diwan Heliopolis store (and give date and course name)
Age group: for adults (17 yrs +)

My Creative Writing courses at Diwan in January

All details on the poster.  Register by going into the Diwan store you wish to take the course and giving your name and payment.  Places limited - advance booking essential.

A New Home for the Writers' Centre!

Dear All

I am very pleased to announce that as from the end of January 2013 the Writers' Centre will have a new home within the HUGE villa that is El Mesaha Arts & Culture Centre in Dokki, Cairo. http://www.elmesa7a.org/


There will be a menu of events such as:

• Writing salons - writers and artists gather to share, talk and present their work or ideas
• Writers' table - a designated time that writers can come and use the space to focus on their work and also network, share if they choose
• Writing surgeries - writers come with their current draft narrative that they are still working on and receive help to move it on
• Creative writing courses
• Day trips to places of literary interest in and around Cairo
• Short residential writing trips to places of natural beauty in Egypt
• Open mics - a platform for spoken word artists, writers and musicians to present and perform

Please keep watching here and the Writers' Centre blogsite http://www.writerscentre.blogspot.com for updates and actual event times and dates!