POETIC DESCRIPTION with Zoe Murtagh

This week we continue our Writing From Home video series with a focus on poetic description. In this fourth episode, Zoe Murtagh talks about how to to incorporate some vibrant and interesting description into your work. This workshop speaks mainly to poetry, but a lot of these techniques will be transferable to short stories, fiction, songwriting and all sorts of different forms. Zoe Murtagh is a writer, performance artist and poet. Her work is vibrant and interactive, creating playful disruptions to everyday life. Inspired by music that makes you tingle, science lessons and Kate Bush’s dancing she creates work around themes of identity, heritage, the environment and friendship in a way that is fun, insightful and might even put a bit of fire in your belly. She is the current recipient of Northern Stage’s ‘Title Pending Award for New Theatre’ and recently took part in ‘Words First’ poetry competition with BBC Radio 1Xtra and New Writing North. She has recently completed writing her debut short film ‘After The Break’ which was written through BFI Network and Film Hub North’s Script Lab and has since been commissioned by New Creatives - a talent development scheme supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts and delivered by Tyneside Cinema. She is a freelance artist with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and has made work for Live Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, GIFT Festival and Curious Festival. New Writing North Young Writers is a programme for young people aged 12-19. We run creative writing groups, masterclasses and programmes in schools across the North East of England. We support young people to express their ideas, to work with professional writers and artists, to create and share new work, and to meet other young writers. We would love to read your writing! Share it with us on social media using #writingfromhome. Search for New Writing North Young Writers on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, where we will also be sharing regular writing prompts. Find other writing workshops and much more on our website www.newwritingnorth.com

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