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Kist Creative
What exactly is a kist, anyway?
Kist is an old, Scottish word that means 'chest', such as the kind you use to stow tools or other valuables safely. Kist Creative provides you with the necessary tools for directing your untapped potential energy into your writing. By focusing upon a more meditative approach to the writing process, we will help you to build a new 'kit' or 'kist' of knowledge and techniques for you to pull from.
Kist Creative has formulated a uniquely stylised approach to creative writing, using guided meditations and free-write sessions to push aside the hypercritical aspects of our conscious minds, while bringing our more imaginative and uninhibited unconscious minds to the forefront.
Whether you have been writing for years, or have only just decided to reach for a pen, the freeing and relaxed nature of our writing ethos will put you in touch with the feelings and stories that your unconscious minds most want to share.
Learn to write from the very core of your being and you will never look back.
About Valerie
Meet the founder of Kist Creative
Valerie Valente
Valerie Valente is the Founder and Managing Director of Kist Creative, a small, independent Hull agency that aims to bring a distinctive creative writing approach to members of the East Yorkshire community. Kist Creative's very own meditative, free-write process is a therapeutic journey of self-discovery which utilises a textbook written by Valerie Valente exclusively for Kist Creative.
Most recently, Valerie's poems have appeared in publications by The Emma Press and Bluebird Word. She has also done work with The Poetry Performance Company, creating on-the-spot poetry at festivals and events. Valerie graduated from the Open University in 2021 with a First degree in Creative Writing and Literature, and is a founding member of the local writing workshop group All Write Now, alongside Lynda Harrison and Louise Beech.
Valerie immigrated to the UK back in 2006, and soon became a mother. Engaging with her children in nature inspired Valerie to self-publish two children's books under her married name, Valerie L. Pate (The Fox and the Hedgehog is available from Amazon).
At the age of eleven, Valerie typed her very first 'novel' on an old typewriter her father had salvaged. When she showed her writing efforts to her sixth grade English teacher, Valerie was awarded a full scholarship to Writer's & Books Literary Center in her hometown of Rochester, NY. There, she took a one-on-one course on how to prepare a manuscript for publishers, at just thirteen years of age. Valerie regularly contributed to her high school's literary magazine and eventually took every English class her school offered. At seventeen, she received an award from her public library for a blind-judged poem entitled 'Night's Eyes'. As an adult in the U.S., Valerie performed at open mic nights and poetry slams around the city, and was also published in several magazines and anthologies during that time.
Valerie is a bibliophile, an enthusiastic traveller, and has a passion for all things autumnal.
She is probably writing a poem right now...
Valerie Valente
Valerie Valente is the Founder and Managing Director of Kist Creative, a small, independent Hull agency that aims to bring a distinctive creative writing approach to members of the East Yorkshire community. Kist Creative's very own meditative, free-write process is a therapeutic journey of self-discovery which utilises a textbook written by Valerie Valente exclusively for Kist Creative.
Most recently, Valerie's poems have appeared in publications by The Emma Press and Bluebird Word. She has also done work with The Poetry Performance Company, creating on-the-spot poetry at festivals and events. Valerie graduated from the Open University in 2021 with a First degree in Creative Writing and Literature, and is a founding member of the local writing workshop group All Write Now, alongside Lynda Harrison and Louise Beech.
Valerie immigrated to the UK back in 2006, and soon became a mother. Engaging with her children in nature inspired Valerie to self-publish two children's books under her married name, Valerie L. Pate (The Fox and the Hedgehog is available from Amazon).
At the age of eleven, Valerie typed her very first 'novel' on an old typewriter her father had salvaged. When she showed her writing efforts to her sixth grade English teacher, Valerie was awarded a full scholarship to Writer's & Books Literary Center in her hometown of Rochester, NY. There, she took a one-on-one course on how to prepare a manuscript for publishers, at just thirteen years of age. Valerie regularly contributed to her high school's literary magazine and eventually took every English class her school offered. At seventeen, she received an award from her public library for a blind-judged poem entitled 'Night's Eyes'. As an adult in the U.S., Valerie performed at open mic nights and poetry slams around the city, and was also published in several magazines and anthologies during that time.
Valerie is a bibliophile, an enthusiastic traveller, and has a passion for all things autumnal.
She is probably writing a poem right now...
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Register your interest in this ten week course which will take you on a journey through the Create Writing 101: Forage and Storage textbook and set you on a path of self discovery and the realisation of your literary potential.
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Recommendations
Louise Beech
Author
'Valerie Valente is a beautiful poet and writer who has always been a large part of the creative community in my area, appearing often at open mic events, and contributing to women's voices at WOW. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her, or any of her courses.'
Louise Beech's Author PageThe Scribe's Log
Follow Valerie's Personal Blog about Creativity and the Writing Process
Peter Pan - as recalled by a Lost Boy who had to grow up
Jack Kerouac remains as relevant as ever. Every writer longs to tell the story of their past, and every youth has heard the call of the wild.
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- Hull, England, United Kingdom