Write & Shine: The Gothic City - Bram Stoker and MR James (Online)
Join Write & Shine bright and early, live from The London Library for a 90-minute virtual writing workshop exploring London as a dark and gothic city.
In this workshop, we’ll read fiction by London Library members Bram Stoker (1847–1912), whose Dracula stalks London's fog-shrouded streets, and MR James (1862–1936), whose ghost stories linger in the city’s corners. We’ll learn how Stoker used The London Library’s collection to research the novel, conjuring his eponymous vampire from books he found in the stacks. And we’ll think about how London lends itself to gothic storytelling: a city of mist and mystery, fog and flickering gaslight.
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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