What's Your Story? is a 5 session intensive creative writing workshop where participants engage with elements of fiction as they compose their short stories, explore unique and expressive forms of poetry and nonfiction that will give them a wide range of exposure and fun!

Each session will involve several writing exercises, facilitator and peer-to-peer feedback, reflections and discussions! They will be packed with activities that involve working with images, art material, craft, illustrations, film and other such stimuli that become the spring board to their writing.

• Participants will work with plot, character and setting as they create their short stories

• They will work with immersive poetry forms like black out poetry and lunch poems

• They will also work with nonfiction forms like memoir/writing about the self, travel writing

• They will explore genres of science fiction and quest

Students will also need to do readings and complete their writing work at home. Completed assignments will also need to be emailed to us so facilitators can read in advance and prepare feedback.

At the end of the workshop, students will have several written works that can be part of their writing portfolio and their best writing from the course will be printed into a small anthology.

Faculty includes, Apeksha Harsh holds an MA in English Literature from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She also has an MA in Writing from The University of Warwick, UK.

Apeksha’s work both short stories and poetry have been published in Under the Radar, Ambit, Fusion, Here Comes Everyone and Eunoia Review. During her time in the UK, she penned the Japanese folktale-based opera Kaguyahime for Operamus. She also taught creative writing to Grade 3 students at St John’s Primary School, Coventry as part of the Warwick Writing Programme in Schools (WWPS). Later, she worked with Writing West Midlands as an Assistant Writer for the Polesworth Write On! Writing Squad.

among other creative writing experts and authors!

Participants can carry their laptops for writing if they would like. Stationery for writing will be provided at the workshop

Written works will need to be submitted after class via email to the pomegranateworkshop@gmail.com for feedback and editing for the anthology.