Exploding Archetypes with Rachel McCrum & Amélie Prévost
Join co-authors Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost, and meet other writers, for a workshop dedicated to collaboration and poetry.
What happens when an archetype and anti-archetype meet face to face in the mirror?
Explore what unfolds when you flip expectations of character, narrative, and process in this collaborative writing and spoken-word workshop with Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost, co-authors of The Stepmother, a project that reimagined the ‘lone writer’ archetype.
Whether you work in prose or poetry, this is a rare chance to break conventions, experiment boldly, and discover new creative possibilities. Come prepared to meet others and work together, using your pen and your voice!
Part of NCW Academy
Rachel McCrum
Rachel McCrum is originally from Northern Ireland and has lived in Montréal, Québec, since 2017. From 2010 to 2016, she was based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence, Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally & Broad, co-founder of Stewed Rhubarb Press, and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her first solo show ‘Do Not Alight Here Again’ was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has toured and taught poetry and performance in Ireland, Scotland, England, Greece, South Africa, Haiti, and Canada. Her first collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018) is published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in 2020, as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales (finalist for 2022 Cole Foundation Translation Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation, for the translation by Jonathan Lamy). She has recently completed a new bilingual stagetext with Amélie Prévost, called ‘La belle-mère//The Stepmother’, which will have its premiere in September 2024. She is the vocalist for poetry-noise group Pigs&Wolves.
Amélie Prévost
Actress, poet and spoken word artist, Amélie Prévost won the Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris in 2016 and has published the collections Corps flottants (Neige-Galerie, 2017, ill. by Steve Poutré), Kamikaze du vendredi (Planète Rebelle, 2021) and Osti d’pain blanc (L’Hexagone, 2023).
NCW Academy Bursary Programme
There is one bursary space available for this workshop.
You are eligible to apply for an NCW bursary if:
- You are a full-time student or pensioner
- You are in receipt of Jobseekers’ Allowance, Disability Benefits, Income Support, Universal Credit or Working Tax Credits
- You have an income of less than £18,000 per year
- If none of these apply but you feel you are still eligible, you may be asked to submit a signed declaration outlining your circumstances.
To apply for the bursary placement, email [email protected] with the name of the course/workshop you would like to attend. Please also attach one of the following proofs of low income listed here.