Faber Academy Workshop: Life Writing with Amy Key - Durham Book Festival

About

Join Faber Academy and writer Amy Key for a day-long workshop of reading, writing and sharing your work with like-minded people. 

In this workshop, participants will read together, looking at how writers of personal narrative craft stories. There will be exercises that interrogate the nature of memory and the stories we tell, to come up with new ideas. The session will explore voice in memoir and creative non-fiction, and what defines our own writing voice.  

Suitable for complete beginners and people with a work-in-progress, the workshop will be relaxed, warm and, above all, generative. 

Amy Key is a writer of essays, non-fiction and poetry. Her poetry collection Luxe was published by Salt in 2013. Her second collection, Isn’t Forever, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018 and was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card choice. Her debut non-fiction book, Arrangements in Blue, was published in 2023. 

Bursaries

New Writing North recognises that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not. If you are unable to book a ticket for this workshop without financial help, we encourage you to apply for our one free bursary place. Bursary places are based on financial need and will be selected at random from valid applicants. 

You are eligible for a bursary ticket if you are in receipt of Jobseekers’ Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Housing Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, Asylum Support, or Universal Credit. If none of the above applies but you feel that you are still eligible, please get in touch. 

Please email HelenaDavidson@newwritingnorth.com with the subject line Amy Key DBF Workshop Bursary, and briefly outline the way in which you are eligible for a free ticket.