On the final day of the festival, Travis Elborough, the award-winning author of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, A Walk in the Park and Atlas of Vanishing Places, leads this interactive masterclass that will help you to get creative when writing about place. Whether you have a novel, memoir, biography, travel or nature writing project in mind, you’ll discover how to effectively conjure place and convey it to the page.

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.

Opening the festival, acclaimed poet Karen McCarthy Woolf invites you to dive into other literatures and consider them in the creation of your own poetry. Using London Library resources as inspiration, she will talk about intertextual form and the ways we can enrich our own work through conversations with other published materials.