Introducing Writing Mornings
Instead of Accountability Club, we'll be running two two-hour Writing Mornings, on Monday and Thursday morning, and we hope you'll be able to join us
We are so pleased that Accountability Club has been such a great success and a lifeline for some of you, helping you ring fence your writing time with the brilliant guidance of Ennis. While London Lit Lab will no longer be running Accountability Club, we will be doing something similar and hope that some of you will make use of it.
From next Monday Dr Lily Dunn will be hosting two two-hour writing mornings per week (bar the week of 20th April when she will be teaching an Arvon course), with a brief moment of intention at the start and a reflection at the end. These sessions will run on Monday and Thursday, from 9am till 11am, for those of you who want a collective space to do your writing, whether you’re working on a novel or a memoir, or a collection of short stories - or you don’t know what you are working on, you simply want to write and want some company while doing it.
Over on her Substack, Lily has been posting about a community-led memoir project she’s set herself a challenge of completing in 5 months, and she’s nearing the deadline, and so she will be working on this Universal Turing Machine during these sessions. In her recent post on her Substack, she shared her process and the importance of writing in longhand when working on her first draft, and she’d love to hear about your process. How do you write? Are you someone who writes in longhand first, or do you like to use the keyboard? Do you feel the difference between the two?
We would love to know your process in the comments below.
Please also find the Zoom link below for the first session, which kicks off on Monday at 9am. If you can’t make it at 9am, please feel free to drop in later, but be prepared Lily might be mid flow in writing, so you might have to wait till she sees you’re in the waiting room. There will be another session at 9am on Thursday.
Thank you to those of you who attended the last Evening Lab with Susanna Crossman. She has just sent us her slides which we are about to send on to you via TicketTailor. We hope you received the recording. This will be available until Sunday 12th April.
We have another Evening Lab coming up on 19th May (6pm, GMT), with the brilliant Julia Bell - Between the Lines: The Meaning of Creative Writing. At the centre of this workshop is the essential question (in the age of AI) what is human writing actually for? What is the value of attention and care when reading another person’s work, and how do we move between what we intend to write and what ends up on the page? This Evening Lab is for anyone who wants to expand their thinking, and to write more courageously. Julia Bell is an author and senior lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, and her next book Between the Lines: Life Lessons from the Writing Workshop is published just before this Evening Lab, on 7th May.
Remember that all are welcome to our Evening Labs, and paid subscribers of our Substack get a 50 % discount (code below). You can book here:
Please keep an eye out for the confirmation email after you’ve booked, which will have the Zoom link for the event as well as the reading material.
London Lit Lab courses open for booking:
Writing the Self: Intermediate Programme, 8-week online course starting 6th May with Katie Watson
Writing our Way Back - Masterclass in Therapeutic Writing, 26th September, 3pm, with Katie Watson
Memoir Bootcamp: Get Submission Ready with Lily Dunn, starts 14th September and runs for 14 weeks. Application only
Susanna Crossman’s autofiction masterclasses will be up on the site soon, as will three masterclasses following on from Julia Bell’s Evening Lab above. We will announce them once they are published.
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