Writing Classy Places: Creative writing workshop at Reading Central Library with Lisa Blower

Join prize winning author Lisa Blower for a creative writing workshop on how to draw class into place and create places because of class. Lisa will discuss her own fiction and offer personal tips on how to generate believable settings and the lives within them.

Lisa Blower is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. She won the Arnold Bennett Prize in 2020 for It’s Gone Dark over Bill’s Mother’s – a collection of stories that draws from her Potteries childhood and the chattering of matriarchs she grew up with. She is the author of 2 novels – Sitting Ducks (2016) which was shortlisted for The Rubery, the Guardian’s Not the Booker and the People’s Book Prize, and Pondweed (2020), a road trip in the slow lane from Stoke to Snowdon via pints, pitches, and pit stops. She won The Guardian’s National Short Story Competition in 2009, has been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story award, The Sunday Times Short Story Prize, and The Bridport Prize. She holds a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing and is Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer in Creative & Professional Writing at Wolverhampton University.