All are invited to join a year-long series of monthly science writing workshops, designed for scientists who want to write in new and creative ways about their work.
Working with editors, writing instructors, designers and publishers, you will explore the different ways you might write about your science, and your life as a scientist. Whether it is through essays, interviews, articles, poems or scripts, our workshops will give you practical experience and new-found skills. By the end of the year, as a participatory project, we plan to publish a book of our work, to be called ‘The Good Science Book’.
The introductory workshop, on January 30th, is co-chaired by Professor Mary Ryan, Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise) and Dr Stephen Webster, leader of The Good Science Project. They will be joined by a guest list of book designers, playwrights and poets, science writers and illustrators. Our task at this introduction is to establish the topics that interest us, decide on a time-table, and begin to work on our writing. Whether great or small, clearly your commitment will vary, and will change according to your pace of life and varying schedules. We are completely relaxed about that.
If you join us, expect lunchtime workshops, lunch included, every month for the next six months. Expect writing exercises, feedback and tuition, creativity and new understandings of your work. Most of all, expect to become ‘a writer’. The themes we expect to be writing about will be drawn from every aspect of science, and will be heavily influenced by the conferences and Friday Forums that have been the life of the Good Science Project for the last three years.