With 'Spooky Season' almost upon us, it was wonderful to be invited to facilitate an outdoor creative writing workshop exploring 'the uncanny' at the glorious but ever-so-slightly haunted Insole Court manor house, with Yr 12 participants from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr comprehensive school. After a creative warm-up in The Drawing Room, participants were sent out to explore the grounds, taking with them...
'AmDro’ is a new creative writing programme using GPS technology to inspire a series of rural and urban geocaching creative writing adventures for young people, aimed at promoting wellbeing. Creative facilitators working with the programme will take participants on geocaching adventures around their community - to the beach, skate park, woods, or local heritage site - blending physical activity with opportunities...
In September 2023, Sian Hughes was one of a cohort of six writers selected for Literature Wales' pioneering 'Writing Well' programme. The year-long professional development programme, which provides training, mentorship, and a small pot of initial seed money, will help the selected writers create and deliver participatory projects which will benefit the health and wellbeing of participants. Each of the writers involved...
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More and more schools in Wales are training to become Lead Creative Schools as part of the Arts Council of Wales's Lead Creative Schools Scheme. This pioneering scheme, unique to Wales, involves giving schools access to creative practitioners working across sectors such as the arts, heritage, and science, in order to help embed creative learning methods. The scheme will prepare...
New Digital Creative Writing Courses at the National Writing Centre of Wales On November 18 2022, 'Wales Book of the Year' shortlisted writer Sian Hughes will be facilitating an online creative writing workshop designed to explore the creative process and introduce tried-and-tested methods of jumpstarting creativity. Whilst the main focus of the workshop will be on helping writers start their story, participants...
Writer Sian Hughes has recently joined forces with artist Ellie Young, winner of the 2021 Solo Art Prize designed to promote talented artists based in South Wales, to explore common themes in their work. The collaboration has led to a body of new writing that will feature in Young's fanzine. “We are both preoccupied with certain themes,” said Hughes. “One of those...