“Vivid and compelling and so moving… Kit’s depiction of her parents’ dynamic is both painful and comforting to read.” Marian Keyes

The go-to session for memoir writers! Kit de Waal, award-winning author of Without Warning and Only Sometimes, hosts a workshop on the how, why, what and where of writing from life. 

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes in 1960s Birmingham, where her parents, “a little woman from Wexford” and a bus driver from St Kitts, raised five children without ever really growing up themselves. In her memoir  Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood, she wrote that her parents each told “stories about their life before us. They both want us as their audience, for the depository of their dreams, for their excuses, justifications, explanations.”

This workshop runs for ninety minutes.