Building Stories is not your usual creative writing workshop. With two London landmarks, the Royal Institute of British Architects and British Library, as its focal points, it makes use of the architecture, public art and archives of each to create something new in the form of narrative text. We, London Lit Lab, designed the course, and […]
Last year, I received the perfect Christmas gift. The Arts Council awarded me a grant to continue teaching a group of people who were recovering from drug and alcohol addiction through St Mungo’s in Hackney. I’d been teaching this same group on a voluntary basis for three months previously. The grant not only enabled me […]
This weekend Zoe Gilbert and I, of London Lit Lab, taught our WRITE & EDIT A STORY IN A WEEKEND course for the second time this year, but introducing more discussion on writing personal essays. It is an intensive writing and editing course over two days. Students usually come with an idea, and spend most […]
After the success of London Lit Lab’s Continuing to Write course, Zoe and I realised the need among Creative Writing MA students to have continued support once they come to the end of their MA. Particularly as they often haven’t finished their novels, memoirs or short story collections. So we decided to set up a […]
This past Wednesday I taught my last creative writing session at Hackney Recovery Service. There were strawberries, pastries, cards… we had readings from our students, and we had tears. What started as a six-week voluntary pool dip, turned into a year of teaching on every aspect of writing imaginable. Thanks to the generous donations from […]
