A creative writing anthology and workbook

By Umi Sinha

This anthology came out of two ten-week courses in Life History and Creative Writing organized and funded by the WRVS Heritage Plus, held at Peacehaven Library and at the Hillcrest Community Centre in Newhaven. During the course, we considered different aspects of life history, did some short writing exercises and produced a longer exercise using a different creative writing technique each week.

This anthology contains a selection of those pieces, separated into different sections under the topics and exercises used. Exploring our own and each other’s lives was fascinating and inspiring and full of richness, regardless of whether people had travelled the globe or lived in one town all their lives. We were able to celebrate and condole, ponder unsolved mysteries (always a good spark for fiction), and produce writing of an impressively high standard considering the amount of ground we covered in just ten two-hour sessions. Each group also gave a performance reading at the end of the course.

The exercises we used are given here, so, apart from being instructive and entertaining, this book can be used as a guide for recording some of your own memories. Why not try them yourself?

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