Tawona Sithole - Starting To Write (in partnership with The Kavya Prize)
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- Tickets
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Free - ticket required
- Dates and times
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19th May 2023
11:00AM - 1:00PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Join Tawona Sithole for this interactive creative writing workshop to help participants prepare to submit work for this year's Kavya Prize.
Tawona Sithole has research and teaching roles in the school of education and medical school, at the University of Glasgow. Other educational roles are with Glasgow School of Art, University of the West of Scotland, University of Stirling and Newcastle University, and Scottish book Trust.
Tawona Sithole is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, a non-funded arts group. and writes and performs with other writers, artists and musicians.
Aye Write and Kavya Prize are pleased to provide support to any budding writer of colour to access these workshops at no cost.
To access your place in this class please email ayewrite@glasgowlife.org.uk to enable us using the subject line Kavya - Tawona Sithole and we will get back to you.
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