The Shakespeare Workshop
How Shakespearean techniques can transform your writing into something bold, rhythmic, and uniquely yours
What can we borrow from Shakespeare when it comes to our writing?
A love of linguistics and a bold disregard for the literary ‘rules’!
In this generative workshop, we’ll use Shakespearean techniques to experiment with rhythm, rhetoric and repetition. We’ll explore methods of manipulating and subverting language to create layers of meaning. We’ll push boundaries, play with form, mix up syntax, and have a whole load of fun mucking about with our writing.
Whether you write prose, poetry, long or short, borrowing methods from Shakespeare can help to elevate each sentence, bring a unique voice to your work, and make every line sing. No previous Shakespeare knowledge or literary snobbery required — just a passion for words, words, words.
Workshop Takeaways
Easy Shakespearean techniques to incorporate into your writing
How to use emphasis, repetition and rhythm to create meaning
How to build up a structural pattern (and then break it)
How to play with language to add layers of emotion and subtext
Fun ways to borrow from Shakespeare to create brand new work
About The Instructor
Jo Gatford is the author of The Woman’s Part, a hybrid collection inspired by Shakespeare’s women, and holds an MA in Shakespeare & Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. She is also an award-winning novelist, poet, flash fiction writer and scriptwriter, with over 50 publications, including the Bath Flash Award, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Forge, trampset and Stylist. She has been an editor and mentor for 15 years, and has been teaching creative writing and narrative theory for over a decade. Find out more at www.jogatford.com and The Joy of Fixion
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