Between the Lines Masterclass: The Workshop as Community with Julia Bell

Writing is often imagined as a solitary act - but the best writing is shaped by conversation, response, and collective intelligence. This session explores how to give and receive feedback generously and usefully, how to read each other's work with care and precision, and how a writing community can become a space of genuine creative growth. We'll workshop pieces in progress and explore what it means to be a generous reader as well as a developing writer.

Essays shared in this workshop will be:

Audre Lorde - Poetry is Not a Luxury

Toni Morrison - The Site of Memory

They will be shared in the confirmation email when you book your ticket.

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This workshop will be recorded for the purpose of sending to ticket holders who can’t make the event, or who miss a portion of the event, or who need the recording as part of their access needs.

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Discount Tickets

There are two half-price places and one free place available on a first come first served basis. Please email info@londonlitlab.co.uk to let us know if you would like one of these spots! 

Your Tutor

Julia Bell is Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers. A novelist, essayist, and poet, she has guided hundreds of writers from first draft to publication over more than twenty-five years. Her new book, Between the Lines (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is a live-action exploration of the psychological, political, and philosophical lessons of the workshop. Her previous book Radical Attention, drew on the philosophy of Simone Weil to make the case for attention as a creative practice in a distracted world. Her memoir in verse, Hymnal, was published by Parthian in 2024. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Statesman, and The White Review, and has been broadcast on the BBC.Find her on Substack at professorbell.substack.com.