Next session – Saturday 31st August, 1- 3pm

Wild Writes! is a series of workshops for families during August. All sessions are run from Reddish Vale Country Park in association with the Friends of the Vale group.

This Saturday we’ll be doing a storywalk, looking at the nature in an area of the park and trying to find some special guests who may be hiding! Then families and children will have the opportunity of making their own storywalk and leading other people on a magical trip.

1pm – Storywalk and story hunting in Reddish Vale Country Park
2pm – Making our own stories – families and children have the opportunity to write and map out their own tale


Maybe we’ll see sand martins and bees, but will we find the goblins here tomorrow?

Next Session – Saturday 10th August

Wild Writes! is a series of workshops for families during August. All sessions are run from Reddish Vale Country Park in association with the Friends of the Vale group.

Anyone can write, and using the natural space of Reddish Vale can inspire writing!

NEXT SESSION, Saturday 10th August meet in the Visitors’ Centre

1 – 2pm, nature walk, sound mapping, and poetry writing

2 – 3pm, short stories and flash fiction

Wild flower: bittersweet, woody nightshade. Rich purple and bright yellow, if this flower could speak what would it say?

Wild Writes! It starts here :-)

This August, at Reddish Vale Country Park, there will be a series of free writing workshops for young people and their families. Using nature to inspire writing, local writer Jen Ruth Bailey will lead 5 weekly workshops focussing on different ways of writing.

This blog will promote future sessions and showcase some work-in-progress.

For more information, please email jennie(at)wildwrites.org.uk

Bird's-foot trefoil and red clover, Greater Manchester