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  • 75.00

    Feral Nature
    a one-day workshop
    with Joan Fleming

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    In this one-day writing workshop, award-winning author Joan Fleming will lead playful and generative exercises that invite absurdity, indecorum, and the ridiculous into your writing, via our focus on the natural world. Expect to spend the day doing close-readings of marvellous short texts across fiction, poetry, and non-fiction; engaging in dynamic group discussion and brainstorming; and going inwards periods of quiet, focussed writing where you respond to a series of prompts designed to get you thinking differently about the possibilities of the page – and the possibilities of our fragile, strange, entangled connections with everything on earth that isn’t us. The day will include: 
    • Morning session 90 minutes
    • Break for coffee
    • Late morning session 90 minutes
    • Long lunch break
    • Afternoon session 120 minutes
    Full Description:  Joan’s approach to writing workshops is to create an inviting, inclusive, dynamic container where we can think new thoughts together in a safe space for experimentation, and for sharing freshly generated work. Themes might include: our strange relationship with animals; blurring supposedly hard boundaries between the human and non-human; leaning into our feral inheritance; the curious intelligence of wild nature; and the grief that arises when we contemplate wild nature in deep trouble. By the end of the day: Expect to come away with three new pieces drafted, to revise, refine, and expand. Joan’s particular interest is in taking your standard “nature writing” – i.e.., the call of the wild geese! awe! transcendence! – and getting a little weird with it. A little irreverent. A little absurd. Come and connect with the wild, the odd, the sad, the animal, the uncanny, the broken, and the eco-absurd. About Joan:  Joan Fleming is an award-winning author from Australia/Aotearoa. Her debut novel The Fig Book — a darkly funny madcap ecological folktale — is forthcoming with Mariner in the US and Allen & Unwin in Australia/NZ. In 2025 she was the Kaipukahu Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato. Her honors include the Biggs Poetry Prize, the Verge Prize for Poetry, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers’ Centre, a Creative New Zealand writing fellowship, and a residency with the Michael King Writers’ Centre. She has been teaching creative writing at Antipodean universities for over a decade.
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    ‘Alejandro Zambra & Megan McDowell’
    Entradas | €3

    El 4 de June Entradas Limitadas | Limited Tickets - 40

    Precio: 3€ - reembolsado con cualquier libro de Zambra (+ tote incluida, por supuesto) €3 - reimbursed with any Zambra book (+ free tote, of course)*
    EVENT IN ENGLISH y ESPAÑOL
    We invite Alejandro Zambra and his translator Megan McDowell to sign at our Feria booth before a bilingual reading at Desperate Literature! Invitamos a Alejandro Zambra y a su traductora Megan McDowell a firmar en nuestra caseta de la Feria antes de una lectura bilingüe en Desperate Literature.
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    10.00

    ⚡️The Harry Potter Quiz⚡️

    "IT'S BACK" - Cornelius Fudge Fri Jan 12th | 20h

     
    HOW IT WORKS:
    - Choose your house and play for the glorious house cup: there'll be giggle water, there'll be questions harder than Hagrid's rock cakes and there'll be fire whisky to boot.* - Drinks and wizard snackery included. *2 HOUSE POINTS for every person in fancy dress (proper fancy dress, mind!)
    HOW MUCH IT COSTS:
    €10/person (including your beverages, of course)...
     

    THE PRIZES:

    The Hermione Granger Prize:
     

    The top student will receive a €25 credit voucher to Desperate Literature

     
    1st place:

    A bottle of fire whiskey + some HP swag for the team*

    *As many Harry Potter goodies as we can get together! Think: stickers, posters flyers, and maybe even Tote Bags
    2nd Place:
    We'll give you a reduced goody bag, including some stickers and posters!

    🏳️‍⚧️ 20% of all ticket sales are donated to COGAM in support of LGBTQI+ rights in Madrid 🏳️‍⚧️

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