Life Writing

A two hour creative immersion into life writing, drawing on memories, feelings and images that trigger us to write powerfully about our direct life experience.

We will provide a sensitive and supportive space, in sight of the sea, as we write and reflect together, using prompts, reading extracts and (optional) sharing.  

Please bring a personal object or image from your life that connects in some way to ideas of resilience, perseverance or solidarity through or following times of crisis / challenge. It may represent a particular time frame in your life, an experience or an attachment to a person, place, belief system or value.  

Please bring a notebook/writing tools.

About Alinah Azadeh

Alinah Azadeh is a writer, artist, performer and cultural activist of British Iranian

heritage. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction as well as recording for radio and podcast. Alinah is winner of the Bridport Prize for Memoir 2025 for her manuscript, Meeting the Water. She was inaugural writer-in-residence at Seven Sisters Country Park and Sussex Heritage Coast for the South Downs National Park 2020-24, and ran pioneering outdoor creative writing programmes, resulting in We Hear You Now, a new audio walk of literature by writers of global majority heritage. Public  commissions include The Four Directions for Towner Eastbourne. She is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Chichester and publishes regularly on Substack.

Low cost places available

We believe the price of our courses should never be a barrier to your learning. If you are unable to pay for a place on this event, you can apply for a bursary place.