Creative Writing - Using Your Senses - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	26 February - 26 March 2026
Sessions	Thursdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 8
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

We understand the world using our senses: sounds, sights, smells, tastes and touch. Being able to capture our sense-based impressions and use them in creative writing is a powerful way to make your writing connect with your reader.   In this five-session course you will focus on what our senses tell us, and how you can use that in whatever creative writing you enjoy: prose, poetry or creative non-fiction. Everyone is welcome: those who have done some writing already or want to give creative writing a try for the first time.  

Each week, we will use one of our senses as the basis for writing exercises. We learn more about how each of our senses operates, and also which senses we rely on most as individuals. You will work with the link between your senses and your strongest memories, as well as flexing your creative powers to conjure up sense-rich descriptions of locations and situations.   The course helps you develop transferable skills such as active listening and how to give constructive feedback. Also, how your learning may fit with your next steps, for example a return to work or a volunteer role.

Please bring with you to the course:-

A notepad (preferably A4) and pen

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.