The annual London Literature Festival kicks off for the sixth time in the Southbank Centre this July. It includes a huge list of acts including: Siri Hustvedt, Saul Williams, John Pilger, Andy Stanton and Nathan Penlington.
It will feature the first ever UK performance of Don DeLillo’s The Word For Snow as well as Capital Stories which focuses on the highlights of London. The festival is a chance for London to be seen through the eyes of graphic short stories, debates and history, though the medium of voice and poetry.
It is an opportunity for all writers and artists from around the world to join together and share their talents in front of crowds of willing listeners and viewers.
Shake The Dust is a performance not to be missed; they are the largest youth poetry slam in the UK with the likes of Saul Williams and Kate Tempest, who will go head to head to compete in the final.
If you need to open your mind to new experiences by the world’s biggest and brightest array of new artists, then this is the place for you this month!
For those aspiring writers out there the Southbank Centre also offers six two hour intense sessions, run by Greg Moss; the MA programme leaser at West Dean College. The classes are divided into the three aspects of writing a novel, the beginning, the story development and the obstacles. They are quite flexible too, so if you are only interest in one of these areas, then just book one!
The beginning looks into establishing the point of view of the main protagonist, the story development looks to the plot and how it develops, keeping the reader interested and the obstacles refer to the difficulties along the way that may affect the strength of the plot and how to keep that focused.
Lucy Walton Female First
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