An interactive fiction writing masterclass, looking at how to write family history by award-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the workshop. Please note due to the interactive nature of this event it is not available as a recording.

The London Library Lit Fest has teamed up with Arvon, the UK’s leading creative writing charity, to bring you interactive masterclasses with highly experienced tutors each morning of the festival.

Award-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson leads an interactive masterclass on writing our family histories. As explored in her most recent Booker long-listed novel, Almost English, she’ll discuss language, identity and home and answer questions about how to bring your stories to fictional life.

The masterclass will take place over Zoom and a limited number of places are available. You will be sent a link 24 hours before the workshop.

Charlotte Mendelson is the author of four novels, including Almost English, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Prize; When We Were Bad, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and chosen as a book of the year in the Observer, Guardian, The Sunday Times, New Statesman and Spectator; and Daughters of Jerusalem, which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her most recent book is Rhapsody in Green, a non-fiction book about her obsession with gardening.

Arvon is the UK's leading creative writing charity. For over fifty years, they have supported writers of all stages to discover and express their creativity and individual voice through residential activity at their three heritage properties based in Devon, Shropshire and West Yorkshire, and more recently online.