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Very pleased to have a tiny story on Paragraph Planet today

My 75 word story, ‘Competition’, is featured on the creative writing website, Paragraph Planet, today. You can read it here: ‘Competition’ by Josephine Corcoran Read more

March 28, 2012
Workshop Three at Trowbridge Museum: Simon Armitage and other poets

For my final March workshop at Trowbridge Museum, on UNESCO World Poetry Day, March 21, 2012, we started by reading Paul Farley’s poem ‘I Ran All the Way Home’ (after Joe Brainard) and used the repeated phrase “I remember” as a warm-up exercise to write memories, as detailed or as fleeting as the group wished.… Read more

March 26, 2012
Writer in School: I sat in the quiet classroom and I heard……

This was a writing workshop with 90 children, split into three mixed-age groups, half Year 6 (10 and 11 year olds) and half Year 1 (5 and 6 year olds). The theme of the workshop was ‘listening’ and the children started by writing continuously for about three minutes, listing all the sounds they could hear… Read more

March 26, 2012
Writing Poetry Workshops at Trowbridge Museum: Workshop Two – Ted Hughes and other poets, March 3rd, 2012

As with the previous workshop, participants were varied in age and experience. My aims, again, were to introduce new poems to the group and to facilitate new writing. Here is a summary of poems read and writing prompts/exercises: Ted Hughes’ ‘Hands’ was used as a prompt to write about someone by closely observing their hands.… Read more

March 20, 2012
Writing Poetry Workshops at Trowbridge Museum: Workshop One – Carol Ann Duffy and other poets, March 1st 2012

Aims of the workshop to introduce new poetry to the group to encourage new writing Participants were varied in age and experience of reading and writing poetry. The workshops were organised around reading/ listening to a poem and then following a writing prompt loosely structured on its subject matter and/or technique. I introduced two quotes… Read more

March 20, 2012
Writer in school: My School Jumper – a writing exercise using all five senses

June 2011 This writing exercise worked well with mixed aged children (5 and 6 year olds with 9 and 10 year olds). Older children supported the younger ones (‘Shall I start that off for you?’ ‘Shall I write that for you?’), younger children often had a wider variety of ideas! We started by talking about… Read more

June 26, 2011