writing for wellbeing

  • We had our final Local Writing For Wellbeing workshop last Tuesday, with the theme of community. Lorna steered us to create a group poem based on what we’d written in previous sessions, and any inspiration which had come from us writing new labels for objects in the museums. I don’t think any of us anticipated

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  • It’s hard to imagine a better setting than a bookshop in a museum for our most recent writing workshop on local stories. Lorna has done some fascinating research into the history of printing in Narberth, resulting in this discovery about Boris Pasternak’s first edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago’. And this broadened out into a discussion of

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  • Local Writing For Wellbeing: The Museum Of You

    Our first Local Writing For Wellbeing session got off to an uplifting start last Tuesday, with seven most interesting writers in the room. As Chapter One bookshop is in a museum, workshop leader Lorna took the theme of us as writers, being our own different types of museums, with different specializations and different moods. Object

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  • 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

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  • At Chapter One bookshop, we’re thrilled to host our first series of Local Writing For Wellbeing workshops, thanks to support from Literature Wales. Here’s what Lorna, workshop leader, has to say about them: Storytelling is an important part of our lives. Whether keeping a diary, telling a friend about something that happened to us or

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