Writing the Uncanny Landscape with Justin Hopper

In this afternoon workshop we'll begin explore ways of approaching 'landscape' as a topic or element of your writing in this uncanny age. We'll discuss ideas borrowed from philosophy, art, music and literature, and create strategies for using uncanny landscapes as a means to intensify your work or simply defeat writer's block - whether you work in fiction or nonfiction; poetry or prose; spoken word or written pages. And we'll do brief exercises to begin teasing out these ideas before we even leave the room.

The intimate workshop includes a talk by the workshop leader on concepts of 'landscape' and the uncanny in the arts and literature; ideas include the 'more-than-human' landscape, hauntology, the uncanny picturesque and edgelands. Strategies garnered from the work of contemporary artists, philosophers and others will help us explode our ideas of place into different imaginings and language, and we'll do exercises to tease out those ideas. Discussion, readings and feedback will follow.

Workshop leader Justin P. Hopper is a writer who explores the intersection of landscape, memory and myth through a variety of media. This includes books (The Old Weird Albion (Penned in the Margins) and Obsolete Spells (Strange Attractor)) spoken-word albums (Chanctonbury Rings with Sharron Kraus, and The Path with The Belbury Poly (both Ghost Box Records)); live performances (The Great Satanic Swindle) and a podcast (Uncanny Landscapes, interviews with contemporary landscape practitioners).

Presented by The Holloway Norwich.

This is an 18+ event