Kiss Kiss Studio

It's all in a kiss! Join us for an intimate course with interdisciplinary artist and poet Tice Cin, exploring the kiss in poetry.

Join us for a Studio course on the topic of kissing – on the electricity of them; looking at poems where kisses are characters; kisses setting the plot forward; kisses ending a scene. We’ll ask: How do we hold a memory in a kiss? What is the poison in a plant’s kiss? A vampire’s kiss?

We’ll be paralleling scripts with kissing scenes into our own poetry, writing to kissing compilations, and creating ekphrastic responses to famous kisses. We’ll be looking at texts like Unruly Blood by Olivia Douglass and with your chest by Remi Graves, and other perspectives will come in from reading extracts from writers like Yan Ge, photographers like Ernest Cole, painters like Edvard Munch, and songs by artists like Latekid, Sinead O’ Connor (who used to be a kissogram!) and Scorcher. Exercises will create a space for us to consider questions like, ‘what is a kiss to remember?’ and ‘how do we measure connection?’.

An aim for the course will be to consider ways to capture the ephemeral, to linger on what business makes fleeting, and return to a kiss. The course will offer opportunities for us to subvert that meaning and use such a universal symbol to create poems that bring something different out of our practice.

We are pleased to be offering a 50% discount on this course for under-represented writers, including poets from BIPOC, LGBTQI+, d/Deaf, &/or disabled communities. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, please email us on [email protected] to receive a coupon code.

Studios are 4-week intensive courses. Reading material will be distributed before the course begins. There are no live chats so they are suitable for both UK & International students.

Concessions & Accessibility

To apply for a concessionary rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]; conditions of eligibility are detailed here. If you have any questions, wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, or require any form of adjustment to access our courses, please email [email protected]. For more information visit our Online Courses page.

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About Tice View Profile

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from North London. She experiments in the space of portals. She has an MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture from UCL. Tice has acted and performed at venues such as Victoria and Albert Museum, The Roundhouse, and Barbican’s Pit Theatre, and has been commissioned by organisations like Cartier, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Montblanc. She was named one of Complex Magazine’s best music journalists of 2021 and 2022, and has written for places such as DJ Mag and Mixmag. She runs Neoprene Genie which has its roots in working within her communities to plug talented people into new rooms – through this her team have made films, community parties with the likes of Scorcher outside Edmonton Green Station, and more. The aim is to make something out of nothing, increasingly important to her amidst the ruptures of systemic bias and global wealth gaps.

A DJ and music producer, she is preparing to release an accompanying album for Keeping the House with a host of talented features including those from the creative house she is part of, Fwrdmtn, such as Kareem Parkins-Brown and Latekid. Keeping the House has been named one of Guardian’s Best Books of 2021, and has been featured in The Scotsman, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is a recent recipient of a Society of Authors Somerset Maugham Prize, and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. A filmmaker, she is currently writing and co-directing three short films. She has just produced, self-funded, and directed her first and second short films.

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