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ORDINARY MAGIC WRITING MATTERS  The Business of Actually Writing PLEASE NOTE - Sessions will be 7:00pm - 9pm JST NOT 7:30-9:00 as on the invite!Popular request was to have longer sessions following our first round! Join poet Carolyn Hashimoto and coach Sarah Furuya on their next Ordinary Magic writing adventure!"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed." Ray Bradbury Following on from the success of their Ordinary Magic writing workshops earlier in 2024, Carolyn and Sarah have put their creative heads together to produce an eight-week writing course that will leave you with no excuses for blank notebooks and empty screens, because WRITING MATTERS! 8 weeks Thursday nights 7:00pm-9:00pm JST (11:00am-1:00pm UK/8:00pm -10:00pm AEST) from June 13th - August 1st Session dates: June 13th | June 20th | June 27th | July 4th | July 11th | July 18th | July 25th | August 1st Check your timezone here“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.”F. Scott FitzgeraldLet Carolyn and Sarah be your creative ignition, the catalyst for whatever it is you are writing or want to write. The course is for writers of all abilities at all levels at all stages of writing – be it a blank page or a full manuscript – let us bring your words to full fruition!“The only way to become a writer is to sit still and write.”Barbara KingsolverOver the course of the eight weeks we will have writing prompts, themes, dedicated timed writing sessions, group mentoring and coaching from poet Carolyn and coach Sarah. We will have discussions on writing, and opportunities to share your work and learn effective ways to give feedback that works. With the support of your writing peers, you will give yourself the gift of time to write and explore. We’ve already witnessed breakthroughs and light bulb moments, and we can’t wait to see more!“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”Neil GaimanDon’t take our word for it – hear what some of our Ordinary Magic Alumni have to say… Your inspiration is all over the mini-books I produced. Your class was the best to get me writing creatively again. Your energy is THE BEST. ::Christina Lopp Schawbecher::Artist::Ordinary Magic Alumni :: ¥42,000 includes access to all 8 workshops, recordings and playlists and the secret vault where work can be shared. All participants will be invited to contribute a piece of writing to an anthology at the end of the course.OM 8-week Alumni Price: ¥30,000 (You will receive a code!)“The gratification has to come from the effort itself. I try not to look back. I approach the work as though, in truth, I’m nothing and the words are everything. Then I write to save my life. If you are a writer, that will be true. Writing has saved my life.”Louise ErdichYou will receive access to content and videos on the day of the session!We will run with 10 sign ups, so please share with budding writer friends and family.We will cap at 18 members so get in quick! Meet your Hosts Carolyn HashimotoCarolyn Hashimoto is a published poet, editor and mentor who returned to Scotland after living in Japan for 20 years. She has published two collections of poetry - COW (Osmosis Press, 2022) and The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown (OrangeApplePress, 2021) - and other works have appeared in Gutter Magazine, 3AM Magazine, BlueHouse Journal and Tentacular amongst others. COW is currently being studied as part of Brunel University’s MA in Creative Writing, and Carolyn is herself a graduate, with distinction, of the University of Glasgow’s prestigious creative writing masters’ programme. She is the founder and editor of Skirting Around – an online journal which explores the politics and emotions of women’s clothing through writing and art. Issue 3 of which will be coming out in February, and a series of Weekly Workouts are currently being run by Carolyn on Zoom. Her mentorship programme Lost For Words was launched in 2022, and is open to writers of all levels and abilities. In the same year she was invited to participate in JUPE: Japanese UK Poetry Exchange - an international poetry project which featured new collaborations made by Japanese and British poets.https://linktr.ee/carolynhashimotoSarah FuruyaSarah Furuya is a magic-weaving coach who has stewarded books, poems, art, paintings, designs, style, song, music, illustration and multiple creative projects into the world. She collects art, and documents the sky from her hillside retreat near the sea South of Tokyo where she host the Legends Podcast, Lighthouse Grief Circle and promotes artists. Based in Japan since 2001 the heart of her practice is the many ways to lead a life, and working with and telling people’s stories. Since starting her coaching business in 2012 she has taken hundreds of people through coaching programs and individual coaching. She holds a BSC hons in Human Psychology and Human Biology and is a trained Organisation and Relationship Systems Coach ORSC™ and a certified psychometric practitioner. She honours the influence of those who have passed on and the deep adjustment of grief in a person's life. Sarah hosts and runs Tokyo’s largest clothing exchange, combining her love of fashion and style with conscious consumption and community.  https://www.sarahfuruya.com

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