Hybrid Creative Writing Session with Writer and Poet Lydia Towsey
Join Lydia Towsey for an hybrid creative writing session! You can either join online or face-to-face at Kala Arts on Frog Island. Once booked, we will send you the link too
Join poet and creative health practitioner Lydia Towsey for a seriously playful workshop exploring how creative writing can help us
Online or at Kala Arts – details for the online session will be sent after booking the tickets.
Join poet and creative health practitioner Lydia Towsey for a seriously playful workshop exploring how creative writing can help us reflect, imagine possibilities and find small ways forward.
Through a brief, optional grounding exercise and a series of short, accessible writing activities, we’ll make space for creativity, explore what matters to us and try out different ways of looking at things. You can draw on your imagination or everyday experiences and take things at your own pace.
No creative writing experience is needed. You’re welcome to share anything you create, in whatever way feels comfortable for you, or simply keep it for yourself.
About Lydia
Lydia Towsey is a poet, performer, cat-keeper, mother and ukulele strummer with an MA in poetry and a primary school certificate in tap dancing. Lydia has performed everywhere from London’s 100 Club, the Roundhouse and the House of Lords… to on the buses as Arriva Buses’ Literary Leicester Poet in Residence.
Twice shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, she has performed across the UK and been commissioned by organisations including The Guardian, Royal Albert Hall and Kew Gardens.
She is the author of two Burning Eye Books, poetry collections, The Venus Papers and The English Disease. Her third , Coffee with Cayetano – about family, identity and a Mexican ancestor offering unsolicited advice from beyond the grave, with very little regard for personal boundaries – arrives in February 2027.
Lydia combines her writing and performance with her work as Creative Director of WORD! and Co-Director of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s Arts in Mental Health Service. She is also the Community Lead for Brightsparks Arts in Mental Health CIO.
About Lydia
“Absolutely spectacular” – Poet in the City
“Lydia Towsey poems are monuments to affection, intimacy and a sense of life that glimmers and dances as it goes…It’s an instinctive art born out of her wide and varied knowledge of people and of different forms of existing.” – George Szirtes, poet and translator
“She writes for a generation that must find a way. Her work adds to the strength of new English poetry.” — Dr Jean Binta Breeze MBE, poet (on The English Disease)
“Her work is a pleasure to read and a joy to watch.”— Kevin Fegan, poet and playwright
“The talent and expertise Lydia Towsey brought to her creative writing workshop got us thinking about the ways in which we could build connection, personal wellbeing and unearth honest reflections” – Mirela Neto, Senior Researcher, Magpie (creative behaviour change agency)
If you are interested in writing or want more information about the event, write to marie@quetzal.org.uk
