The New Nature: Want To Write About London’s Wild Side?
There’s a new online home for writing about wild London.
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Explore The Art And Craft Of Letter Writing
Remember when we used to write with pens?
Food Writing Course @ Leiths
Leiths unveil food writing and food styling courses for bloggers and budding pros.
Lit Preview: Writing About Medicine @ Wellcome Collection
Medicine and wellbeing in literature is up for discussion at the Wellcome Collection on Wednesday. Dr Richard Barnett, Dr Erin Sullivan and Dr Michael Neve – who was on the judging panel of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2010 – will chew the fat over …
Interview: Chris Paling, Author Of Nimrod’s Shadow
Chris Paling, novelist, has worked in our city for 30 years. The capital is the setting of two of his novels, including the latest, Nimrod’s Shadow, published this month. And yet, he says, “I don’t know London very well.” The city is “a place I …
Write Queer London 2009
logo for the 6th edition of the Month The second annual Queer History Writing Prize was launched by Untold London in association with Chroma earlier in November. This week sees 2 ‘inspiration events’ designed to get your creativity flowing and your words written and both …
Lit Preview: A.L. Kennedy @ Roundhouse
A.L. Kennedy (or Alison Louise if we’re not going to be all formal about it) is not only the author of a series of astonishing novels and short stories – including the Costa prize winning Day – but is also a stand up comedian. She …
Literary Preview: Future Human @ Old Operating Theatre
Editing as entertainment? We were about to strike the Londonist red pen through this one until we read a little further into the details. The Butcher’s Shop is a regular writer’s workshop from Bad Idea magazine at which pre-submitted short stories are edited live on …
Write Queer London @ MoL Late
The first Late at the Museum of London this year plays host to the winners of the Write Queer London Writing Competition. In association with UntoldLondon and Chroma Journal, writers were invited to come up with alternative queer histories of London. For example, what if …
Write Queer London
Untold London has been doing sterling work for a number of years unearthing and sharing stories from this city’s diverse communities. In October they launched a writing competition to lure LGBT stories out of the closet to expand on the history of London from a …
Explore London Through Your Pen: WRITELondon
If there’s a novel inside every one of us, it’s useful to have a way to worm it out. Not all of us are dedicated enough to bang it out in a month and some of us are too chicken to go on an academic …
