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Workshop salons

NeuWrite Nordic hosts dinner workshop salons for invited participants on the second Thursday evening of every month. Our participant pool represents a wide range of professional interests, affiliations, ages, and career stages, including independent writers, professors, practitioners, and students. Participants meet over good food and drink in a comfortable room at Oodi Central Library, the architectural jewel of downtown Helsinki. In the workshop room, one wall is dedicated to a video screen where participants in other places can also join via videoconference. Each salon begins with an informal dinner hour followed by a workshop of draft texts of various kinds currently under development by participants in NeuWrite Nordic. Sometimes the workshop group also reads exemplary published works by master science writers and discusses their techniques. Occasionally established science writers also join the group to discuss their craft. Regional in-person meetings in other Nordic locations may become possible in the future. Our creative-writing workshop meetings are informed by the Nordic folkbildning tradition of democratic collaborative learning, with a focus on "text conversation".

 

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To apply to participate, please send us a brief description of your relevant professional activity, writing experience, and reasons for wanting to join, via email. It is not necessary to have a current work-in-progress to begin attending the workshops; however, you should have in mind future work that you could submit. Participants should plan on attending the monthly meetings regularly.

 

Texts for workshopping

Draft texts to be workshopped should come from works-in-progress that deal with science in almost any genre intended for a non-specialist audience, and that present writing challenges to their authors that would make transdisciplinary group feedback useful. Each text, or section of a text, to be workshopped can have a length of up to 5000 words. Currently the focus is on English-language texts that can help Nordic-based work achieve a wide impact. Workshops in Nordic languages are a possible future development for the project. Texts are submitted for consideration in advance by interested participants, and are reviewed and scheduled for workshopping as appropriate by the NeuWrite Nordic director in consultation with the advisory board.

 

Support

NeuWrite Nordic is supported by a generous grant from