Once you have purchased the Playback, a link and password to the session recording on our Vimeo page will be emailed to you (from press@outspokenldn.com) after the session has taken place.

Please note that the password-protected recording will be available to watch for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop. After this date the video will no longer be available to access.

Have a very Out-Spoken (and faintly pagan) Christmas!

Join Fiona Benson for a playful session of festive writing focused on generating lots of first drafts to work on in the ongoing winter season. Seeking inspiration from poems of the winter city, favourite tinsel and tat, Christmas trees and mistletoe, we will explore some personal winter fables as well as hearing tales of folk noir Christmas creatures like the Krampus, the Yule Kat, and poor old wandering Babushka. We will spend the last part of our session crafting little Christmas poetry zines - lovely little keepsakes to hang on the tree or give to someone. As Jane Kenyon writes in 'Taking Down the Christmas Tree: "If it's darkness / we're having, let it be extravagant."

You will need:

• A rectangle of paper of anything up to A4 size to fold up for your zine. Christmassy images torn out of magazine and old calendars etc might work well.

• Glue

• Scissors (or a scalpel and cutting mat if you're feeling extra)

• Any old scraps of text you don't mind cutting up - magazines, papers, instruction manuals, Christmas round robins.....

• Ditto for images you might like to collage on to your Christmas zine. 

Purchase link

Once you purchase this item, and after the workshop has taken place, you will be emailed (from press@outspokenldn.com) a link and password to the video recording of the workshop on our Vimeo page. This password-protected video will remain available for viewing for a limited duration of three weeks from the date of the workshop: until Sunday 15 December 2024. After this date it will no longer be accessible.