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Kerry Hammerton is a poet and writer known for her poignant and evocative poetry that explores themes of identity, memory, and the human experience. She has published poetry and prose in various literary journals and anthologies. Her latest poetry collection afterwards (2023) is a striking collection of poems providing insights into the background of the writer, her concerns, interests and sensitivity to the natural world. In 2024 she edited In Other Stories, (Karavan Press) an anthology of flash fiction and creative non-fiction. Kerry is a freelance lecturer and supervisor with the Rhodes University School of Languages and Literature on their Masters in Creative Writing programme.
Learn more about Kerry here
R300,00 – R900,00
Sometimes we have a personal story we want to tell but it feels too large or too overwhelming. What would it mean if you wrote that story as a piece of flash? Join writer and writing facilitator Kerry Hammerton to explore the art of writing flash creative non-fiction/memoir and fiction, or writing short. We will read interesting examples of flash and use them as a stepping stone to generate writing. The workshop will be interactive with a number of exercises and creative ways of exploring writing ideas. You will leave with a number of pieces of writing that you can edit and incorporate into a larger piece of work.
“Writing is a mode of reading is a mode of writing is a mode of thinking is a mode of feeling.” Lance Olsen
Instructions for participants
If you want to write memoir please have at hand five photographs of people you want to write about. This could include a self-portrait, and also a few self-portraits at different ages. Also source at least five photographs of settings that are important to your story, this could be a house, or a holiday or a sunset. Look for settings that provoke an emotion in you.
If you are focusing on fiction then please source five photographs of different people. You can find these in magazines or on online sources. Also source at least five photographs of settings that provoke an emotion in you.
A great way to find photographs is to look at online sources like https://unsplash.com/ or https://pixabay.com/. When you open these websites they will generate a number of photos, instead of looking for something specific scroll through the offering and grab what grabs you. If you want a truly random experience use this photo generator, select the number of images you want and then use these images: https://randomwordgenerator.com/picture.php
Dates: Saturday 9 & 16 August
Time: 10am - 1pm
Duration: 3 Hours
Venue: Zoom Online
FEE OPTIONS
Fee Option 1 - R300
Fee Option 2 - R600
Fee Option 3 - R900
We use a sliding scale fee model, allowing for events to be offered at multiple price points based on your financial circumstances.
For it to work, we’re relying on principles of truthfulness and accountability.
Facilitators deserve to be paid and course participants deserve to attend personal development courses which recognise the multiple realities of economic access and privilege.
Fee option 1 is a reduced rate for those whose budget genuinely cannot accommodate option 2.
Fee option 2 represents the fair and true cost of the course.
Fee option 3 is for those who are able to pay for themselves and pay extra towards making it possible for another person to attend a LRC writing course at a nominal rate.