From Here to There: Writing Place and Space
with Sharon Dempsey (Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow 2024)

According to academic and writer, Meg Mundell, “… every story takes place somewhere—and every place is constituted, at least in part, by stories,” Crafting ‘Literary Sense of Place’: The Generative Work of Literary Place-Making.

Drawing on Mundell’s framework for literary ‘place-making’, this series of monthly workshops, open to undergraduate, MA and PhD students, will explore stories in relation to place and space. The workshops will be led by Sharon Dempsey, and will involve a series of exercises derived from Mundell’s ‘POET model’, based on five modes of ‘place-oriented experiential techniques’ that engage lived sensations, emotions, memories, thoughts, ideas and actions, through which writers can use to evoke a literary sense of place.

Students are encouraged to attend ALL sessions. Work produced over the course of the workshops will be shared through a podcast in the autumn.