The Moon and the Earth in prose at European Lunar Symposium

Please note this event has been cancelled. 
The Open University in Scotland is delighted to host a range of poetry workshops and an Open Mic night, supported by Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, in celebration of the European Lunar Symposium’s arrival in Dumfries. 

Join celebrated author and academic Lania Knight (Remnant, There is Fire Here) for a practical workshop on writing about the moon and nature. You’ll be given prompts and techniques and over the course of two hours you’ll build up your own original piece of written prose. This is a practical writing workshop, please bring pens and paper.

In the evening at the Dalry Town Hall, we’ll be having a social open-mic night with the parallel prose class, where you’ll be invited to read or perform your piece for your co-participants and participants of the prose workshop. This is free for workshop participants, you don't need to book a separate ticket.

Lania Knight lectures in Creative Writing at The Open University. She was born in New Orleans and has lived many places in the US and UK since leaving home on the back of a motorbike at sixteen. She has a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and her most recent book is a collection of essays, There Is Fire Here. Read more about her at www.laniaknight.com and @laniaknight on social media.

You can book your free space via the CatStrand website.

Find out more about the public events in Dumfries & Galloway around the European Lunar Symposium on our OU in Scotland events page.

There is a wide range of free learning from creative writing and Writing what you know, to planetary and space sciences on the OU’s free learning site OpenLearn, including a collection of courses, articles, videos, audios and interactive features on Moons.