Write & Shine: City of Memories – Virginia Woolf and Patrick Hamilton (Online)
Join Write & Shine bright and early, live from The London Library for a 90-minute virtual writing workshop exploring literary London.
In this workshop, we’ll draw inspiration from the notion that a city’s physical landscape and its history are deeply intertwined with personal memories and experiences. We’ll stroll around Virginia Woolf’s evocative city writing and trace the paths taken in Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky. These authors vividly explored how walking through London can prompt memories and reflections and how the past is inscribed into the urban environment. Join us to consider how the city's streets and history might enrich our own writing.
This workshop is the second of our series of morning writing sessions, led by author Gemma Seltzer, exploring writing from and about the city. Inspired by the London Library’s rich literary heritage, we’ll look at city writers including Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon and Nell Dunn and consider what the city offers both writers and readers.
Write & Shine workshops take place in the early morning light - the best time to think, dream and imagine! You won’t be expected to share your writing, which offers great freedom and encourages all kinds of fascinating ideas to emerge.
This is an online workshop via Zoom. Please log in at 7:30am for 7:45am start.
You will be sent a Zoom link a few days before the workshop (if you do not receive it, please check your junk file or email us).
London Library events are subject to Terms & Conditions
