events & workshops
Workshop participants: “You were amazing. Everyone was buzzing afterwards and there was a sense of permission to play that was talked about all day”
I love to perform my short stories, poems and hybrids and give talks about all aspects of creative writing, including using science as inspiration, and I am an experienced teacher and facilitator of writing workshops on a wide variety of topics. If you’d like to invite me, contact me and we can discuss fees, dates etc…
2024
ONLINE WORKSHOP Mon April 29th 5-7pm UK Time Mslexia Salon Hybrid Writing Workshop
Come unbox your writing and let your words fly free of labels and genres! See Mslexia Salon for more details and booking >> https://mslexia.co.uk/salon/
ONLINE CHAIRING FLASH FICTION PANEL for the Bridport Prize Wed May 15th 6.30-7.30pm UK Time
Details coming soon!
IN PERSON WALKING TOUR AND WRITING WORKSHOP, Sunday May 19th, 2-5pm, Southern Cemetery, Manchester
Join me and the wonderful tour guide Emma Fox for a repeat of our walking-tour-and-writing-workshop, ‘Getting Curious About the Dead, in Manchester’s magical Southern Cemetery – no writing or walking experience necessary, details and booking here, subsidized places available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-curious-about-the-dead-southern-cemetery-tour-and-writing-workshop-tickets-881051026337
ONLINE WORKSHOP Sun June 2nd 11.30 – 1.30pm UK Time Retreat West ‘The Magic of Collisions’
Join me for an online workshop in which we’ll be colliding all manner of things — from physics to fairy tales, detectives, spaceships, insects and histories — to find wondrous and novel ways for you to tell the stories you want to tell in whatever form you want to tell them, from short stories to poetry and hybrids!Tickets £10, details and booking here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/retreatwest/1177665
ONLINE Monday June 10 Poetry Reading at Winchester Muse
Details coming soon!
ONLINE TALK June 19th, 7-8pm UK Time: Prose, Poetry and Badly Made Fences
I’m giving a talk as part of my poetry publisher Nine Arches’ excellent webinar series on prose, poetry and what all that might mean. Come join us! Tickets here: https://ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Perspectives-on-Poetry-Form-Masterclass-Webinars/p/646598062/category=0
IN PERSON Friday June 28 Reading at Pride Month event, Levy Old Library, Manchester
Details coming soon!
IN PERSON Wed July 10th Reading at Manchester Fiction Writers’ event, Portico Library, Manchester
Details coming soon!
ONLINE MASTERCLASS Wed July 23rd 7pm – 9pm UK Time Arvon: Marvellous and Impossible Things
Join me and Sean Lusk for a special joint masterclass to let your imagination off its leash and season your short stories, poems and hybrid pieces with a little magic – and raising funds to subsidized a place for a writer from an underrepresented community on the Residential Arvon Week we are teaching in October (see below). Details and booking here, bursaries available: https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/masterclass-marvellous-and-impossible-things/
IN PERSON Monday Oct 7th – Sat Oct 12th, Totleigh Barton, Devon, Arvon 5 Day Residential Fiction & Hybrid Writing Week: Magic, Reality and All That Lies Between
Join me and Sean Lusk and our special midweek guest, Alinah Azadeh, for a weeklong fiction & hybrid writing residential course inspired by magical realism! Details and booking here, bursaries available: https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/residential-writing-week-fiction-25/
Testimonials:
Georgina N, participant in a Zoom flash fiction masterclass, Nov 2021: “Thank you Tania. It was like letting loose a swarm of humming bees to make honey. Clever facilitation.”
“Two hours of flash heaven this morning with Tania Hershman on her #flashfiction workshop. Excellent #writing exercises (I have 3 new micros at least!) & thoughtful, intelligent tips. ‘Liberation through constraint’ is my new mantra.” Tracy F, 2020
“Didn’t think I had it in me, but here I am at 8am EST, with four new flash story drafts written in the past two hours, thanks to Tania Hershman & her fab writing exercises… Thank you, Tania I’ve been writing, but not freely. This forced me to let go, something I have a very hard time doing with my writing. So grateful to Tania.” Janice L, 2020
“Brilliant flash fiction workshop with @taniahershman this morning. Came away with 4 drafts and now I need a nap! Also lovely to hear Tania echo my own sentiments of the line between poetry and flash being so thin” Sarah S, 2020
“I haven’t written anything new in months and this was exactly the kickstart I needed!!!” Marina S, 2020
Past Events & Recordings
Friday Feb 26th 1pm-2pm UK time I read as part of Live Canon’s Lunchtime Reading Series alongside Lawrence Illsley and Theophilus Kwek.
Wed Mar 3rd 6.30pm UK time I read a brand new short story inspired by ethical artificial intelligence at a Just AI salon alongside the fantastic Adam Marek.
March 18th I was “in conversation” with Rosie Garland about her new poetry collection as part of the Ledbury Poetry Salon, 7pm – 9pm.