#NaPoMo

Next week! We still have a few places remaining, so do book soon if you'd like to join the brilliant rebecca perry for a lovely morning of writing on Tues 16 April!

Oh, such a bright and lovely Field Notes® edition, embossed with patterns based the first flowers to appear in spring. Three little notebooks, perfect tucking into your pocket for a springtime wander!

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In tomorrow's workshop—called 'Zoom'—we'll explore size and scale in poetry, memoir and classic films, considering work that combines the oversized and the diminutive, to inspire new writing of our own!

Friday 5 April (7.15-9am, virtual on... Zoom!)
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So spring-y outside!

Memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history, writes Annie Ernaux.

In 'Echoes,' one of our most popular online courses, we look memory & how echoes of the past can be used to shape our writing.

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'On Trampolining' is a beautiful memoir about Rebecca Perry's years competing as a trampolinist. ⁠She joins us this season for a virtual writing workshop called '⁠Emergence' - exploring ideas of stillness, emergence & retreat.
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Tue 16 April (7.15-9am)
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Sunshine!

Detail from our seasonal artwork by Paulina Kozicka. ⁠

I can’t wait to read your poems, I’m head judge for the Causley Trust International Poetry Competition, 1st Prize £1500! And a week’s residency at Charles Causley’s house in Cornwall. & there’s a Young Person’s comp too. Deadlines 1st April. Enter here:

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Join us bright and early, live from The London Library for a virtual writing workshop inspired by Iris Murdoch!

Her work is richly visual so we’ll consider how imagery and colour play a vital role in her writing—and in our own.

Fri 3 May, 7.45-9.15am via Zoom
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Angela Carter gathered folk stories in her books of fairy tales (1990 and 1992). They featured all kinds of good, bright, resourceful women...and lots of trickery, talking animals and magic!

Written as 'a reminder of how wise, clever, perceptive...our great-grandmothers were.'

Enjoying the morning light.

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Detail from our seasonal artwork by Paulina Kozicka.

Thanks so much for sharing details of our spring programme, Katrina! Great to be in such fine company! 🌷

In our workshop 'Islands' we'll take a voyage across oceans to islands both idyllic and strange. Judith Schalansky's 'Atlas of Remote Islands' will inspires us... and its fifty islands never visited.

Tue 2 April (7.15-9am)
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Like a cruise ship slowly turning.

We’re delighted with our new seasonal artwork by Gdańsk-based illustrator Paulina Kozicka. ⁠It's so joyful, full of spring colour and light.

Another great professional development session from Society of Authors, on chairing events! Highly recommend watching it when it goes up on their Vimeo channel.

Lads, no one said there's this humongous night happening at the Royal Albert Hall on May Day: royalalberthall.com/tickets/events…