Write & Shine: City of Voices – Sam Selvon and Nell Dunn (Online)
Join Write & Shine bright and early, live from The London Library for a 90-minute virtual writing workshop exploring literary London.
What does a city expose and what does it hide? In this workshop, we’ll explore voice and dialect in city writing. We’ll write together inspired by Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, which captures the experience of Caribbean immigrants navigating life in 1950s London, and Nell Dunn’s Talking to Women (1962), a set of interviews with women on money, freedom, love and class. Both authors immerse the reader in a conversational, intimate narrative voice—voices not often given power or space to speak.
This workshop is the third 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).
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