Tickets £15

Whether you are living with recent loss or were bereaved long in the past, this gentle, flexible and no-pressure workshop will offer practical tools to get you through the day (and night) when you are grieving. Simple, inventive writing exercises will guide you to map the ‘landscape’ of your own grief experience, trace the many paths through it, and find peaceful places to spend time. We will explore the difference between writing feelings, writing facts and writing fiction, with options for take-home activities. Anyone can attend; no special writing skills or experience necessary.  

Your ticket includes tea/coffee and biscuits.

This event has kindly been supported by The Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) at the University of Bath -  an internationally recognised research centre focusing on the interdisciplinary social aspects of death, dying and bereavement. Join their monthly newsletter by emailing cdas@bath.ac.uk or follow them on X @cendeathsociety.

Dr Tamarin Norwood is a writer and academic with a background in fine art. She has written on drawing, metaphor, memorial and grief, and has an interest in ritual and rural history. Tamarin is a Leverhulme ECR fellow at Loughborough University, a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and a visiting fellow at the University of Bath Centre for Death and Society where she is part of the CDAS Writing group. Her memoir The Song of the Whole Wide World, interpreting the brief life of her baby son, is published by Indigo in February 2024.