How to write a city. A workshop with Spanish writer Elena Medel
Join Elena Medel, Passa Porta’s writer-in-residence for November, to learn about how to draw inspiration for your literary texts from everyday life.
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A city is made up of streets and avenues, squares and parks, buildings. Cities are inhabited by people: some move all their lives in the same neighbourhood, others pass through them every day or only live there temporarily. And a city is also built by the memory of those streets, those buildings, those people and in times of gentrification and touristification, writing from that attitude is a political stance.
Are you interested in creative writing and do you want to work with real-life materials? The city you live in, far from the postcards and tourist centres. The lives of the people around you, and your own, which can be an inspiration for your poems, stories or novels. The books and films that have told the story before you, but also the conversations on public transport...
Elena Medel, novelist, poet and writer in residence invited by Passa Porta will lead this workshop in which she will also talk about the research and writing process for her book Las maravillas.
The workshop will be delivered in English.
No previous writing experience is needed.
Attendees are encouraged (not obliged) to read Las maravillas ahead of the event. The book is available in English (The Wonders, translated by Thomas Bunsteand and Lizzie Davis; Pushkin Press, 2022), Dutch (De wonderen, translation by Heleen ten Oomen; Meridiaan, 2022) and French (Les Merveilles, translation by Lise Belperron; éds. La Croisée and 10/18, 2023).
Elena Medel’s residency at Passa Porta coincides with EUROPALIA España and is supported by the Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE).
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