Keep Writing: how to thrive after you graduate

Seminars, workshops, masterclasses: writing at university can be productive, exciting, and all-consuming. But what happens once you graduate? How do you keep writing around work, caring responsibilities and other life commitments?

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This evening symposium aims to explore how writers, including alumni and current students, keep going. We will hear from writers who have turned their hand to commercial writing; writers turned editors; competition winners; coaches, and entrepreneurs.

 

See below for the full programme.

 

Keep Writing is brought to you by two SHU Creative Writing PhD students, Jo Dobson and Sophie Parkes-Nield. For more information, please email jcdobson@exchange.shu.ac.uk

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Wednesday 8 March 2023
Performance Lab, Arundel Gate Court, Sheffield S1 2LQ
 
5.10 Welcome and introductions
 
Part 1: towards a sustainable writing practice
 
5.20 Lauren O’Donoghue: Post-graduation highs and lows (10)
 
5.30 Letty Butler: Juggling a portfolio career (10)
 
5.40 Beverley Ward: Plot twist! Responding to challenge, reacting to change (20)
 
6.00 Questions (10)
 
6.10 Break (20)
 
Part 2: widening your experience
 
6.30 Ethel Maqeda: volunteering (10)
 
6.40 Molly Aitken: ghostwriting and copywriting (10)
 
6.50 Northern Gravy: from writing to editing (15)
 
7.05 Questions (5)
 
7.10 Bec Evans, Prolifiko: Build a writing habit that lasts (30)
 
7.40 Questions and wrap up (5-15)
 
7.45 Close