City of Stories Home: Workshop with Lorraine Brown on 10 Feb 2022 & Short Story Competition

We’re pleased to be a part of City of Stories Home, celebrating London’s libraries as places to make and share stories.

We’re part of a fantastic series of free online creative writing workshops for adults through all library services in London. Come along and try it out – no experience required! If you’re a little more experienced in writing, that’s great too. Our workshop takes place on 10 February 2022 with Lorraine Brown.

Lorraine’s debut novel THE PARIS CONNECTION, which includes themes of financial hardship and challenging family dynamics, was longlisted for the Bath Novel award in 2016, after which she was chosen to be part of Penguin Random House's WriteNow scheme, which aims to launch the careers of writers from backgrounds currently under-represented in the publishing industry. The novel was published in paperback by Orion Fiction in January 2022, as well as by Penguin Random House in the US last summer, and has also sold to twelve foreign territories worldwide including Germany, Italy and Portugal. Lorraine's second novel, SORRY I MISSED YOU, will be out in June 2022.

In the workshop, we’ll explore short stories and home, and take part in lots of fun creative writing exercises in a safe and welcoming space.

When you’ve attended a City of Stories Home workshop you can enter the project’s writing competition with your 500 word story on the theme of ‘home’. Competition winners will see their work published in an anthology, and win a place at a special day of masterclasses for talented writers. 

Book your free workshop place now!

For more information about City of Stories Home, including top tips on how to write your short story, and to read special commissioned short stories by Natasha Brown, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Jarred McGinnis and Amer Anwar, and more, visit: www.spreadtheword.org.uk/cityofstorieshome