Text messages, shopping lists, emails, cover letters and online product reviews all offer rich starting points for a fictional story. Join us for a workshop led by Ania Bas, an artist and writer who uses in her work forms of writing that are part of everyday life. This workshop will offer guided exercises to encourage you to experiment and unlock your imagination – ideal if you want to write but need help getting started. It is suitable for beginners and for writers with more experience.
This event is part of the Conflicts and Displacements season at Pushkin House.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Ania Bas is an artist, writer and arts organiser. Her work has been commissioned by the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Art on the Underground and Yorkshire Artspace. Ania is a co-founder of The Walking Reading Group (2013–ongoing). She is an Open School East Alumna (2013–2014) and Faber Academy Alumna (2018). She currently works at Eastside Projects as Artist Organiser and joined Writing West Midlands ROOM 204 in 2020. Her debut novel Odd Hours came out in June 2022.
ABOUT ODD HOURS
Gosia Golab is a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy. Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flatshare, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a chance encounter snaps her out of her reverie. Propelled into a series of mediocre jobs, lousy dates and even worse sex, the prickly yet warm-hearted Gosia begins her excavation of the “perfect” life so many dream of. Raw, funny, mean and moving, Odd Hours is a razor-sharp social comedy about human connection, unexpected happiness and the many forms of love. Written in diverse narrative formats of a diary, poetry, reviewers’ comments, self-help book and Facebook entries, it’s been described as “a hymn to normality and an absolute joy to read” by Sarah May, and Daisy May Cooper simply described it as “f***ing brilliant”.