Break through writing blocks with a playful, hands-on approach to storytelling with this friendly, creative workshop at the National Centre for Writing (NCW) in Norwich. Presented as part of Roua’s residency at NCW, in partnership with Counterpoints.

Feeling stuck in a writing project? In this practical and imaginative workshop, writer and artist Roua Horanieh will guide you through simple making and drawing exercises designed to help you visualise ideas, overcome creative blocks, and discover new directions for your work.

Making something with our hands can often be helpful to think creatively.

When we’re making something beautiful, meaningful, or simply fun, we can lightly hold an idea in our minds and let it gently look for places to wander into. Places that can sometimes surprise us and that are sure to spark our curiosity and fuel our imagination.

Roua Horanieh has years of experience working in architecture and collaborating with art practices. She regularly draws and makes models when developing her writing projects.

Sometimes the models and drawings are ways to explore the actual structure of an essay, a scene or a story, but sometimes they are just a development tool, a way to think about the elements of a text, the characters, the locations, the themes, the action taking place, the tension in the narrative, the dramatic questions.

Full details and booking from the National Centre for Writing