Thanks to those of you who’ve already booked, and we’re just a week away here from the start of our Writing For Wellbeing series of workshops. So we’ve been raiding the shelves in the bookshop for inspiration and ideas.

For those of you who don’t know Narberth, it’s a small and most charming market town in the middle of Pembrokeshire, West Wales. And we’re located slightly off the beaten track from the High Street, in the Old Bonded Stores, used originally to store alcohol, and still licensed today. We’re close to gorgeous beaches like Saundersfoot and Tenby, and wonderful walks on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path.

We hope to use our bookshop, museum, and amazing surroundings for inspiration during these writing sessions. We’ll be covering themes like writing about yourself, storytelling, sensory writing, nature writing and local writing in a community. And there’ll be complete freedom to write in whatever form you fancy, with a tiny poetry intermission from the poetry pause podcast, half way through each session.

We’ll aim to include a research aspect into the workshops, where we invite attendees to help us answer the question: does writing make you feel good – and if so, how and why? As hosts, we’ve backgrounds in creative writing teaching, writing, and psychology, making us especially interested in how writing can contribute to personal development and vice-versa.

If you’d like to know more about our feelgood writing workshops, then please e-mail lornaleethewriter@gmail.com, and we’ll continue to keep you posted here. Thanks to Literature Wales for support with these workshops.