This participatory workshop will focus on writing. As teachers, our creative energy is often used to facilitate the creativity of others through taught sessions based around an element of the writing practice, offering writing exercises and ideas that might be the ʻsparkʼ for a piece of writing. But we, as writers ourselves, also need the ʻsparksʼ that might feed our imagination and creativity. The workshop will comprise of a brief discussion of a short, short story by James Lasdun that will focus on suggestion and accuracy, moving into writing exercises that will stem from Lasdunʼs story