Workshops & Courses
GHT Creative Writing Group #4 - Black History Month
Join us for this new Creative Writing workshop, as we explore the theme of Black History Month with host Susmita Bhattacharya
This workshop coincides with Black History Month, and we’ll be focusing on food and the history of it. What did the Windrush generation bring to Southampton in terms of food and how did being a port city influence the food of Southampton?
We’d like you to come to this session and bring along a recipe from your personal heritage to contribute to a culinary map of Southampton. We’ll also be tasting a dish from Southampton’s Black Heritage Association as well as a couple of others!
You’ll also have time to explore our new exhibition by artist Ebun Sodipo ‘For my Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul’
Creative Writing Group #4 takes place on Saturday 15th October from 1:30pm – 3:30pm at God’s House Tower and is free to attend. You can sign-up here (Spaces are very limited).
About the host
Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer and writing facilitator. She won the Winchester Writers’ Festival Memoir Prize in 2016 and her novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian/Bee Books) was long-listed for the Words to Screen Prize at the Mumbai Association of Moving Images (MAMI) festival in India.
She has been shortlisted for, and won, numerous prizes and awards and her work has been commissioned by magazines and for BBC Radio 4. Her most recent collection of short stories, Table Manners, was published by Dahlia Books (2018). It won the Saboteur Short Story Collection Prize in 2019, was finalist for the DLF Hall & Woodhouse Literary Prize and was serialised on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
She teaches at Winchester University, leads the ACE funded ArtfulScribe Mayflower Young Writers workshops, and was a mentor for the Middle Way Mentoring project. She was writer-in-residence for The Word Factory, London in 2021.
*Please note that these sessions will be taking place at God’s House Tower.
We’d like you to come to this session and bring along a recipe from your personal heritage to contribute to a culinary map of Southampton. We’ll also be tasting a dish from Southampton’s Black Heritage Association as well as a couple of others!
You’ll also have time to explore our new exhibition by artist Ebun Sodipo ‘For my Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul’
Creative Writing Group #4 takes place on Saturday 15th October from 1:30pm – 3:30pm at God’s House Tower and is free to attend. You can sign-up here (Spaces are very limited).
About the host
Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer and writing facilitator. She won the Winchester Writers’ Festival Memoir Prize in 2016 and her novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian/Bee Books) was long-listed for the Words to Screen Prize at the Mumbai Association of Moving Images (MAMI) festival in India.
She has been shortlisted for, and won, numerous prizes and awards and her work has been commissioned by magazines and for BBC Radio 4. Her most recent collection of short stories, Table Manners, was published by Dahlia Books (2018). It won the Saboteur Short Story Collection Prize in 2019, was finalist for the DLF Hall & Woodhouse Literary Prize and was serialised on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
She teaches at Winchester University, leads the ACE funded ArtfulScribe Mayflower Young Writers workshops, and was a mentor for the Middle Way Mentoring project. She was writer-in-residence for The Word Factory, London in 2021.
*Please note that these sessions will be taking place at God’s House Tower.
