Workshop in Creative Writing: from Aesop to Brian Bilston
Date 8 Oct to 3 Dec 2025
Teachers
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.
Schedule Wednesdays from 18h00 to 20h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes
Creative writing workshop applied to the picturebook. Participants will carry out practical exercises in creative writing, or writing and illustration, and learn techniques to unblock writing.
The motto for this workshop is found in short texts that will be read in class: from Aesop's fables to the surprising poems of Brian Bilston, by way of Mayakovsky's children's books, The Characters, by Theophrastus, or A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear. An approach to these and other texts will help to recognize the mechanisms of narrative and writing, serving as an inspiration to the students.
At the end of the workshop, students are expected to hand in a final work where they put into practice the knowledge acquired.
