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Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: londonlitlab.substack.com and here londonlitlab.co.uk

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Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is an excellent course and you will learn soo much! One of our past students said she learned more than doing a creative writing MA.
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Writing a novel, and struggling over plot. Do you want to make it a bestselling page turner? There are still a few places left on our brilliant course, with author Anna Freeman. You can pay in instalments. Find out more here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-... #amwriting #writingcommunity
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How to Plot a Page Turner - London Lit Lab
Turn your passion project into a page-turner as we explore methods of plotting and storytelling on this asynchronous course!
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Calling all poets! We are so excited to have the brilliant @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social do a workshop for us on 9th Feb, 2-4pm GMT that combines queer theory with ecopoetry. Listen here to discover more, and you can book here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/poetr... #poetry #creativewriting #amwriting
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Calling poets! You'll love this workshop with the brilliant Caleb Parkin, former Bristol City Poet. It's an interactive collaborative workshop that will be lots of fun. It's online on 8th Feb, and £20 to join. Please spread the word to your poet friends. www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/poetr...
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Impurities: Poetry and Contamination - London Lit Lab
This is ecopoetic writing workshop where decentering of the human – and the individual author – becomes playful, provocative and enjoyable.
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Day five of my #tree #adventcalendar & here's the Bowl Oak, one of my besties as my daughter would say. It holds onto its leaves late. I call it the Bowl Oak coz it has a bowl in its bole where you can sit & watch the water meadow from a new angle. I'd love to see your arboreal besties...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here @lilydunn.bsky.social reflects on why people love creative writing courses so much. You can read it here open.substack.com/pub/londonli...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Still a few tickets available for this brilliant workshop with Andrew! Details below
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Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If you’re writing #memoir come along to my Memoir WIP Surgery on Wednesday night at 6pm GMT to discuss ways of finding your story, when your canvas is a whole life! - you can find out about it here open.substack.com/pub/lilydunn... #lifewriting #writingcommunity
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Memoir WIP Surgery: This Wednesday!
Are you working on a memoir? Are you struggling? Hitting brick walls? Are you unsure about how to narrow it down to story, or you're holding back for fear of hurting loved ones...?
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Do you live with chronic health issues or care for someone who does? Come along to this workshop to find your voice and your story
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Andrew K Kauffmann @jkaye82.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have a #mentalillness & have lived with it for 23 years. What else explains my #story? A great deal! We are more than our #health | #care needs need not define us. We will #write all this and more at my new @londonlitlab.bsky.social workshop on Dec 14th #NHS www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
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Andrew K Kauffmann @jkaye82.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Please do consider our new @londonlitlab.bsky.social workshop on December 14th. We are still taking bookings and are looking forward to #writing and seeing where our curiosity takes us as we explore our #health and #care #stories www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... #writingcommunity #socialcare
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Finding Our Perspective: Writing Health and Care Stories - London Lit Lab
This workshop is a safe space to begin exploring, and if you feel comfortable, expressing your individual health or care story.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Many thanks to all the Indie booksellers whose passion and hand selling of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social Have made it such a favourite A tip of the hat to : @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @kitdewaal.bsky.social Tonight on BBC 2 #Betweenthecovers 7pm
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Do you suffer from chronic illness or disability? Come find your voice and story with writing coach Andrew Kauffman during this workshop, mid December. #amwriting www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
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Finding Our Perspective: Writing Health and Care Stories - London Lit Lab
This workshop is a safe space to begin exploring, and if you feel comfortable, expressing your individual health or care story.
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Pierce Press @piercepress.com · 21/11/2024
following - great topic. My video editor is an almost completely deaf person; she has skills exceeding those of hearing ppl in many ways; and we adjust for audio needs.
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We have a new course coming up at start of December which will be interesting to those of you who live with chronic health conditions or disability, or care for someone who does. This week @lilydunn.bsky.social wrote about it and the power of embodied writing. open.substack.com/pub/londonli...
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Writing Health and Care Stories
Do you suffer from chronic illness, or disability, or do you care for someone who does? Dr Lily Dunn explores how writing can be a powerful tool for expression.
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 21/11/2024
Twice a year we make catalogues to share our upcoming books with booksellers and journalists and all kinds of interested (hopefully interested!) folk. In recent years we’ve been commissioning illustrators for the covers: it’s become a real highlight for me to see what they come up with.
The cover for the Canongate spring 2024 catalogue by illustrator Magda Michalak, showing readers swirling in a brightly coloured abstract styleThe Autumn 2024 catalogue with a cover illustration by Vincent Bell Robertson, showing a distracted reader sitting in a bookshelf while his house (and seemingly the world) has flooded around him. An Autumn 2022 cover illustration by Sophy Louise, showing a street scene where everyone is either reading or at least carrying a book, whether they're on a bus, at a cafe or walking on the pavementA Spring 2022 cover illustration by Candice Purwin, of a black and white comic panel-type grid of different scenes and locations, with bright red books positioned so they pass across the different panels...
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Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thrilled to announce that the Northern Fiction Alliance's Winter Showcase will be on the 12th December in store! Join publishing superstars @commapress.bsky.social, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, @northodoxpress.bsky.social and @saraband-books.bsky.social for some literary delights!
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Lovely to see Duets from @scratchbooks.bsky.social in The Guardian - stories that "zing with unexpectedness" says Jude Cook ICYMI @rubycowling.bsky.social @benpester.bsky.social @nellstevens.bsky.social @giantratsumatra.bsky.social @elfodongo.bsky.social @londonlitlab.bsky.social
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Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you love memoir and reading personal essays, come and join me and others for my first Memoir Club - on Zoom tonight. You need to be subscribed to our @londonlitlab.bsky.social Substack to join. But it will be worth it! We're discussing Natalia Ginzburg's 'He and I'. #memoir #lifewriting
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are very much looking forward to hosting this course at the end of November and there are still a few spots available. Book now!
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
What has Zoe been reading? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 150th Anniversary edition illustrated by Salvador Dali – our idea of Alice always shrinks, rather like the character herself, and whenever I return to this book I find forgotten delights and new meanings. ❤️ #reading #illustrations
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 150th Anniversary edition illustrated by Salvador Dali
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
We have two half-price spots (costed at £20) available for our masterclass on the audio monologue a 2hr introduction for writers! ✒️ 14Nov 7-9pm (UTC) Email ennis@londonlitlab.co.uk to request a discounted spot! www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/live-... #AudioDrama #writers #podcasting #writingcommunity
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Live Online: The art of the audio monologue: a guide for writers - London Lit Lab
Writing and performing monologues are great tests for both writers and actors. In this workshop we look at the art of writing, performing and recording audio monologues. Throughout, we’ll listen to ...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Monologues can be part of a wider production or tell entire stories on their own – in this workshop, audio producer Chris Gregory discusses how to write them with an eye and ear on performance. 🎙️14Nov 7-9pm (UTC) at £40 www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/live-... #AudioDrama #writers
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Live Online: The art of the audio monologue: a guide for writers - London Lit Lab
Writing and performing monologues are great tests for both writers and actors. In this workshop we look at the art of writing, performing and recording audio monologues. Throughout, we’ll listen to ...
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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
If you're thinking about a new turbo-charged writing challenge for next year, I'd be delighted if you joined my "Gold Rush" course next April-May for @londonlitlab.bsky.social. I promise you ARE as original as you think you are (at least in some way). 🤓 www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/short...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Whether you are #writing #shortstories, #memoir, genre or YA #fiction, you are welcome to join Zoe Gilbert's Monday online writing group! 🖊️  20Nov–17June, £295. www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/post-... #writingcommunity #writers
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Interested in writing about the discrimination we witness or experience as queer people? Gain support writing your queer story on Andrew's 6 week course ✨ Nov1–Dec13, 6 weeks at £185 www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/queer...  #lgbtq #writers #WritingCommunity
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
2 weeks to go until our series on writing for audio begins! In this video Chris Gregory (@StoriesAlt) runs through what will be covered on these six online workshops: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubj... ✨ 31Oct–12Dec at £180 #audiodrama #audiofiction #podcasting #writingcommunity
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Writing for Audio | Chris Gregory
In this series of six workshops designed especially for writers, audio producer Chris Gregory explores the wide range of opportunities for writers to get the...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Are you a memoirist? Take a look at Lily Dunn's prompt list to spark up some new inspiration for your next project! #memoir #nonfiction #writing #writingcommunity #writingprompt
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Just a little over two weeks left for our #SubmissionCall!
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Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
I wrote a piece for Lit Hub about the aftermath of publishing my memoir, and the dilemma of exposing the sins of our fathers, when we are taught to revere patriarchy. I reference two memoirs I love, by Safyia Sinclair and @noreenmasud.bsky.social. You can read it here: lithub.com/on-safyia-si...
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On Safyia Sinclair, Noreen Masud and Exposing the Sins of Our Fathers
Last year I published a memoir, Sins of my Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling, which had been a lifetime in the making. I wanted to capture the complexity of loving a damaged man, and t…
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Interested in writing about the discrimination we witness or experience as queer people? Gain support writing your queer story on Andrew's 6 week course ✨ Nov1–Dec13, 6 weeks at £185 www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/queer...  #lgbtq #writers #WritingCommunity
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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
First session last night of @londonlitlab.bsky.social 8 month workshop. Forgot how lovely workshop environment can be, closely reading and discussing work in progress. Lots of rich ideas to carry forward on my memoir project about my grandparents, the Holocaust, intergenerational trauma.
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
2 days until 'Who is My Reader?' taught by the wonderful Julia Bell! "Developing good #writing is learning to read like a writer and involves moderating the inner critic to see our work as realistically as possible." 14Oct, Sat 11am–1.30pm UTC+1, £40 www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/live-...
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Live Online – Who is My Reader? - London Lit Lab
All writers want a reader, an ideal person who will read our work with sympathy and understanding and maybe even award us a prize . . . but who is this projected figure and how can a better understand...
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London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
👋 Bluesky writers! Here are our 2023 offerings: Courses 💥How to Plot a Page 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Storytelling 🖋️ Zoe's Writers' Workshops Workshops 📕Who is My Reader? 🎙️Writing for Audio Series 🔺 Structure and Technique www.londonlitlab.co.uk #writers
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