Space and Nature in poetry 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 poet, writer, actor and academic Wanda O’Connor for a practical workshop on writing about the meeting point between nature and space exploration.

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, so 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.

Dr Wanda O’Connor is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer who works with libretto, film and performance, and writes in the genres of poetry, screenwriting, and short fiction. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Associate Lecturer at The Open University, and occasionally teaches for the Poetry School.

Her poetry is based in a contemporary projective (open form) practice and her critical writing explores language writing, projective writing, women’s poetry, poetry and feminism, spatiality, and Heideggerean thrownness (Geworfenheit). 

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.