With Ayisha Malik and the Professional Writing Academy
We’ll look at ways to use your environment to spark stories about your life and family, using all five senses as story starters and thinking about how the people around you speak – because place is about people. There will be practical exercises to find the telling details that make a piece of writing feel richer, and we’ll look at short extracts from authors inspired by the city, the countryside and historic landscapes.
Tickets £15 per person, strictly limited numbers.
Facilitators
Ayisha Malik
Ayisha is a former publicist at Penguin Random House, turned managing editor at Cornerstones Literary Consultancy, turned full-time writer. Her debut novel Sofia Khan is not Obliged and its sequel The Other Half of Happiness (Zaffre) were dubbed as the 'Muslim Bridget Jones’. Ayisha has contributed to the anthology A Change is Gonna Come (Stripes Publishing), commissioned in response to the lack of diverse voices in UK publishing, and is also known for ghost-writing Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain's adult books. Her latest novel This Green and Pleasant Land (Zaffre) is ‘an inquiry into faith, identity and the meaning of home’ (Guardian).
H is for home
Ayisha Malik
