Leviathan Publishing

StudioPracticeforWriters.com has been launched, and will be working in partnership with Leviathan Publishing.

I created SPW because I’ve often wondered how writers, myself included, might benefit from the structure of a studio. I like the idealised aspects of it: a community in which the artist is not working alone, but working alongside peers, in apprenticeship with masters, and providing mentoring when asked. I’m captivated by how the creators of physical art like painters and sculptors can locate their art in time and space in a way a writer does not have to. I feel comforted in the thought these creators need to find a place to go, out of logistics and necessity, to create their art. To me, romanticising it, as I know I am, it means their art is anchored, moved from the ephemera of the possible to the actualised of the physical. For many creative people, a studio is a sacred (internally quiet) place, where an inspired way of being meets a mechanical act of creating.

I created StudioPracticeForWriters.com for these reasons and to hold studio practice style writing groups and classes. News on the SFW resources, courses and activities coming soon.