Quiet power: Write & Shine at LSE Library

Start your day with a burst of creativity! Join Write & Shine at LSE Library for a very special early morning writing workshop as part of the 100th anniversary of The Women’s Library. Author Gemma Seltzer will guide you through a range of creative exercises to prompt new poems, stories and life writing.

This workshop marks The Women’s Library’s 100th year and celebrates the theme of Quiet Power. In the morning light, we’ll step into the archive, uncovering inspiration in letters, pamphlets, publications, overlooked objects, and the traces of women’s lives preserved in marginalia and diaries. Together, we’ll reflect on campaign materials and personal writings that reveal strength in subtlety, resilience in detail, and the enduring presence of women’s voices. The workshop will also include a guided tour of The Women’s Library, offering a rare and extraordinary setting to write.

Write & Shine workshops take place in the early morning light – the best time to think, dream and imagine! You won’t be expected to share your writing, which offers great freedom and encourages all kinds of fascinating ideas to emerge. Find out more about Write & Shine.

Who runs Write & Shine?

The Write & Shine programme is led by London-based writer & early riser Gemma Seltzer. She set up Write & Shine in 2015, following a collaboration with a photographer in 5am London, which captured the city during the first part the day. Gemma makes all kinds of literary projects and has enjoyed writing commissions from organisations such as Age UK, BBC Radio 3, the Guardian, the Museum of London, Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. Her most recent book is Ways of Living—short stories published by Influx Press—and a Foyles bestseller.

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