- Event Date: 12/07/2025
Read Write Express – Writing for Wellbeing and Self-Awareness – Completing
Event Details
- 14:30
- Zoom
- From £25
Event Description
Through reading, reflection, discussing written resource/s, self-attunement, listening, writing and sharing, we will contemplate the theme of ‘completing’. In this workshop, we will be looking at and discussing resources that help us consider the process of completing – projects, plans, processes etc – whether this is achievable and how important this can be which will lead into our own writing.
For this workshop you will need a notebook and a pen.
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Farmacological fictions. The limits of bibliotherapy
Presenter: Jurgen Pieters
Saturday 6th September, Time TBC.
In this talk I want to discuss work in progress in which I look at a number of scenes in novels in which the effects of reading are quite ambivalent, not simply positive or therapeutic as current reflections on bibliotherapy have us believe. I want to argue, though, that theories and practices of bibliotherapy do well to take into account the fact that literary writings can serve as medicine as well as poison. They are ‘farmacological’ objects, in the meaning given to that term by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler: their effects can be positive and negative simultaneously.
About the Presenter
Jürgen Pieters is Professor of Literature at Ghent University (Belgium), where he coordinates the international network CHARM (Consortium of Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine). He is the author of Literature and Consolation. Fictions of Comfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a new book about the use of literary writings in contexts of care.
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87915127798
About the Lapidus Living Research Community
The Lapidus Living Research Community (LLRC) meets on the first Saturday of every month via Zoom to discuss all things research, with a focus on qualitative arts-based research practices, theory and methods.
All Lapidus members are welcome, regardless of research experience. FREE AND NO TICKETS REQUIRED. Use the Zoom link above to access the event.
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 time, and possibly some surprising revelations.
We all have them—that inner murmur, mutter, monologue. Sometimes it’s wise, sometimes it’s way off. Literature is full of these inner voices, from Woolf’s fluid consciousness to Shakespeare’s solitary speakers to Baldwin’s unposted letters.
In this writing series, we tune in. Each week, we’ll read a short, vivid piece—monologue, letter, poem or fragment from the likes of the authors mentioned below—and use it as a spark for our own creative writing. Expect wordplay, unexpected turns, and the occasional flash of insight.
Week 1: Voice and Echo – Fragments, contradictions, layered selves (Woolf, Beckett, Rankine)
Week 2: Letters Never Sent – Writing to the past self, the future self, the imagined other (Baldwin, Kincaid)
Week 3: Soliloquy & Confession – Talking out loud when no one’s supposed to hear (Shakespeare, Browning, Carson)
Week 4: The Inner Chorus – Giving shape to the internal tug-of-war (Didion, Vuong, Davis)
No critique, no need to share—unless you want to. Just bring a pen, a curious mind, and your self.