Poetry Workshop

Gill O'Halloran has been writing short stories and poems for many years. She gained a distinction in the 'Craft of Writing' course run by Birkbeck University. Her first poetry collection ' This Seven Year Old Walks Into a... [ view full abstract ]

Gill O'Halloran has been writing short stories and poems for many years. She gained a distinction in the 'Craft of Writing' course run by Birkbeck University. Her first poetry collection ' This Seven Year Old Walks Into a Bar' pub. Indigo Dreams Press was included in the top 20 individual collections of 2009 by The Small Press Poetry Awards, and in 2014 she was shortlisted for the Off the Stanza poetry prize. She has lived experience of mental illness as a carer, and has run poetry workshops for carers, health service users, and the bereaved.

Gill writes: 'My workshops are for everyone. It doesn't matter if you have never written a line of poetry before. We will use some simple exercises to generate images and words. Our aim will be to produce a group poem. I've found that this generates a sense of belonging as well as artistic achievement and creativity.