Creative Writing - From the Milky Way to Earth Day - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	6 November - 11 December 2025
Sessions	Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 8
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

In our six sessions, you will experiment with writing poetry about the challenges and opportunities we face on our planet. So, if you are interested in the natural world or space travel or something in between, come along and give this course a try. No science background is needed, (but welcome if you have it!) - just a little curiosity. Everyone is welcome as the course is aimed at poetry beginners as well as those who have written before.

During this course, we will cover:

Using existing poems as a scaffold to start your own
How to find out and use scientific facts in poems
How your senses and life experience are starting points for writing poems
Using objects and gadgets as starting points to inspire your poems
An introduction to the shape and form of poetry
Using your ideas about the world of the future to create poems
Transferable skills such as how to express opinions in the group and how to give/receive constructive feedback

What you will need for your course:

a pen/pencil and notebook preferably A4. Smart phone is useful for fact checking

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.