Dear Me: unsent letters to myself . . .

Ever drafted a letter in your head you never meant to send? To yourself, your younger self, someone long gone, or not yet met? Writers have long mined this private, potent form: Baldwin, Kincaid, Plath, and plenty more.

This workshop invites you to write from the inside out. We’ll start with short readings—monologues, poems, letters from the likes of the authors mentioned below—and use them to spark our own creative responses. Funny, fierce, reflective, or raw, there’s no right tone, only your own.

• Week 1: Voice & Echo – Where our thoughts circle and split (Woolf, Rankine)
• Week 2: Letters Never Sent – Honest, unsent missives to self and others (Baldwin, Plath)
• Week 3: Soliloquy & Confession – Unfiltered speech and theatrical turns (Shakespeare, Browning)
• Week 4: The Inner Chorus – Who else is in there, and what do they want? (Didion, Vuong, Davis)

Come write. No critique. Just good company, good writing, and possibly some surprising revelations.

JOINING DETAILS:

• Four-week study led by Alison Cable
• Tuesdays, 5.00-7.00 pm (UK time)
• 9, 16, 23 and 30 September
• £120 for four meetings