Create Festival: Beside the Seaside: Exploring the Sea through Writing

With Shaun Levin*

Saturday 31 July
1pm - 6pm
£15/£10 (concessions)
Idea Store Canary Wharf, Churchill Place, E14 5RB
Nearest Tube/DLR: Canary Wharf

A practical creative writing workshop looking at the sea in our personal and cultural lives. From fairy tales with mermaids or selkies, historical realities such as middle passage and the spice trade, as well as immigration, dreams, hunky sailors, and sunny beaches, we'll explore through writing, reading and stoytelling ways to use the sea as reality and metaphor in prose and poetry. The workshop will also include a visit to Museum of London Docklands' 'London, Sugar and Slavery' exhibition.



*Shaun Levin set up and launched Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal in 2004. He published a collection of short stories, A Year of Two Summers in 2005 and a novella, Seven Sweet Things in 2003. He is the recipient of an Arts Council of England Writers Award and has won the Moment Short Story Contest.