CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2026

Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th & Thursday 30th July | 2.45pm – 4.45pm | £80 for three-day workshop course 

• Workshop course is delivered over three days.
• Each workshop lasts two hours and all workshops are delivered at the same time.
• Participants should attend all three sessions.
• Tutors are experienced creative writing facilitators and published authors.
• All levels are welcome.

Spaces are limited – advance booking is essential.

Breaking the Page: Writing Experimental Poetry with Nicole Yurcaba 

This generative workshop invites advanced poets to break away from conventional poetic structures and explore the limitless possibilities of experimental poetry. Participants will examine how meaning, sound, structure, fragmentation, and visual arrangement can morph into new poetic experiences. Through guided exercises, collaborative explorations, and readings from innovative poets, participants will challenge their assumptions about what a poem, and the page, can do as well as what language can become. 

Nicole Yurcaba is a Ukrainian American of Hutsul/Lemko origin. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Belfast Review, Abridged, Seneca Review, New Eastern Europe, Euromaidan Press, Chytomo, and The New Voice of Ukraine. Her poetry collection, The Pale Goth was published in 2023, and her latest chapbook Hutsulka (2026) is available from River Paw Press.