Back in Cambridge for another workshop. Funding cuts threaten the future of these writing visits. There is talk that if workshops go ahead again they may be in Kent on a campus site.
The beauty and the success of these trips is because they are held away from the normal goings on of University life. I fear for any future workshops held back in Kent.
This workshop could be the last of its kind and it will become just legend rather than reality.
I whole heartedly agree Andrew. Having attended one of these invaluable workshops, I can only say that beautiful surroundings, away from the hurley burley of meetings, ringing telephones and constant e-mails, enabled all who attended to focus on the act of writing.
ReplyDeleteTo relocate to 'home territory' would allow those (sometimes unnecessary) intrusions to dominate and interrupt the thought processes that the Cambridge surroundings allowed us to indulge in at length.