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The Mourning Pages 2026
2nd November – 30th November
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mourning-pages-2026-tickets-1994542646748

An online creative programme designed to heal creative burn-out, aid restoration and find nourishment in the fallow times between projects.

The Mourning Pages is a new kind of creative programme, designed to help you recover and rejuvenate after completing a big creative project, or when you feel creatively ‘spent’ and & “burned-out”.

Many creative writing workshops and programmes focus on getting started or keeping up momentum, but few workshops look at what can help you transition from the end of one big project to the beginning of another one, or if you’re feeling stuck and “in-between”. This liminal space can often be uncomfortable, plagued with a sense of emptiness, ‘spentness’, fatigue and a fear that you will never produce creatively again.

Tina Sederholm and Ciarán Hodgers have both experienced this “creative-grief” after publishing poetry collections and touring shows. Through a shared experience and heartfelt conversation, they came to understand that if they traversed this period thoughtfully and restfully, it could in fact become a time of nourishment, inspiration and grounding.

Modern society today holds productivity on such a high pedestal that often the idea of rest or restoration can feel unproductive. Needing a break can make us feel like we are unworthy, unwanted and perhaps even a moral failing on our part. While productivity and discipline are important creative tools, we want to explore rest as productive, creative-grief as nourishment, and inspiring quiet as a powerful antidote to the burnt-out, too-many-spinning-plates, frazzled minds we have become too accustomed to.

Taking place during November, we will align ourselves with the time of Samhain and Hallowe’en, in preparation for the deep rest that we may wish to receive during the Winter Solstice / Holiday season.

So if you’ve just finished a creative project and want to embrace rest more fully as part of the creative cycle, join us!

We look forward to resting with you.