Write & Shine: City of Subterfuge - Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark (Online)
Join Write & Shine bright and early, live from The London Library for a 90-minute virtual writing workshop exploring London as a city of espionage, secrecy and hidden lives.
In this workshop, we’ll read fiction by London Library members Muriel Spark (1918–2006), whose novel The Hothouse by the East River channels her work in wartime intelligence and explores how the past continues to haunt the present, and Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), whose masterpiece The Heat of the Day, set in 1942, places London at the heart of intrigue, betrayal and shifting allegiances. We’ll think about the ways London lends itself to stories of secrecy: a city of subterfuge, coded messages, overheard conversations and shadowy encounters.
This workshop is part of a series of morning writing sessions led by author Gemma Seltzer, inspired by The London Library’s rich literary heritage. Together we’ll uncover London as a secret city—a landscape of dreams, disguises and shadows.
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.
NB 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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