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✍️Your prose is your paintbrush

At Flarne, a writing workshop is not a class.

It is a small artistic universe, a space where you come to play with words, images and ideas, transforming what you feel or think into a distinctive literary form.

A feeling that is difficult to explain.
An abstract idea.
An ordinary scene.
A thought about the world.

Then comes the work of language.

How can we give it more force? More imagery? More rhythm? More beauty?

For one hour, words become an artistic medium

Here, you can:

  • build an allegory;

  • transform a simple sentence into crafted prose;

  • dramatise an idea;

  • search for an unexpected metaphor;

  • play with rhythm and sound;

  • write in prose or verse;

  • take words beyond their usual meaning;

  • experiment with more theatrical, poetic or unconventional forms.

The aim is not to write “correctly”.

The aim is to create.

To begin with something you could have expressed ordinarily, and explore how literature can give it a different intensity.

🖼️ Leave with a quote of your own

At the end of the session, your work does not simply disappear.

From what you have created, we select together a quote, a line or a short passage that captures your voice and imagination.

After the workshop, Flarne sends it to you as a framed visual bearing your name, inspired by the literary quotes we keep, display or share.

Your thoughts. Your words. Your signature.

Keep it, print it, or share it freely on your social media.

Because a sentence you have spent an hour shaping may deserve a frame of its own.

Every Saturday, choose your one-hour session.


Bookings can be made using the links at the bottom of the page.

Session 1: 12 pm – 1 pm
Session 2: 1 pm – 2 pm
Session 3: 2 pm – 3 pm
Session 4: 3 pm – 4 pm
Session 5: 4 pm – 5 pm

Capacity per session: 6 in-person places and 6 online places.

Price:

€29 / session
Join whenever you like, with no commitment.

€19 / session with the 3-month plan
A weekly artistic appointment to turn writing into a genuine creative practice.

BOOKINGS

SATURDAY PROGRAM

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🎭 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Evoking a feeling without ever naming it

Challenge: jealousy.

Write a scene in which a character experiences intense jealousy, without ever using the words: jealousy, jealous, envy, or anger.

Convey it through gestures, silences, rhythm, the objects being observed, thoughts, or comparisons.



Question from the facilitators:
Does your text truly make someone—who is unaware of the theme—feel the jealousy?

The challenge: do not explain an emotion; give it a form.

🏛️ In-person

💻 Remote (Online)

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🕊️ 13:00 PM - 14:00 PM | Giving life to an abstract idea

Concept : Freedom.

Write about freedom without using the word "freedom."

A door that refuses to close? A bird that stays inside a cage, even though the door is open? A city without a clock?

No—find your own image.

Transform an abstract idea into a metaphor, symbol, or allegory capable of conveying your personal conception of freedom.


A question from the facilitators:
Does your image truly express your conception of freedom, or is it merely pretty?

🏛️ En présentiel

💻 Remote

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🥀 14:00 PM - 15:00 PM | Making an Ordinary Scene Extraordinary

Scene: Someone is waiting for a message that never arrives.

Objectively, almost nothing is happening.

Your challenge is to imbue this act of waiting with enough dramatic weight to transform it into literature.

The phone might become a hostile object, a clock, a promise, or a gateway to someone who is absent.

A question from the facilitators:
What have you added—through your use of language—to a situation that, objectively, was nearly empty?

The challenge: Take the grayness of everyday life and add some color.

🏛️ In-person

💻 Remote

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⚖️ 15:00 PM - 16:00 PM | Transforming an opinion into Literature

Opinion: "Forgiving someone does not obligate you to resume a relationship with them."

Do you agree? Disagree? Somewhere in between?

Writing an essay is not permitted.

Bring your stance to life through a scene, a conversation, a monologue, an allegory, a poem, or any other entirely unexpected form.

A question from the facilitators:
Does your text truly defend an idea, rather than simply stating it?

Here, philosophical reflection meets literary creation.

🏛️ In-person

💻 Remote

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🧪 16h - 17h | Te Literary Laboratory

Theme: Saying goodbye

Express a farewell using an unconventional form.

A few possibilities:

  • give a voice to an empty chair;

  • transform a separation into a weather report;

  • write using only questions;

  • recount a farewell in the form of a recipe;

  • write without using the words "leave," "depart," "absence," or "goodbye";

  • write a conversation in which both characters know they are parting ways, yet never explicitly say so.

A question from the facilitators:
Does a constraint truly enrich your writing, or is it merely a fun exercise?

Here, language becomes a genuine artistic playground.

🏛️ In-person

💻 Remote (Online)

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