Participate in a creative writing workshop led by Palestinian author Heba Hayek and Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani.

What does it mean to write from a place rather than merely about it? How have the places we come from shaped our ways of seeing? How do we shape a place in return through story, attention, witness?

In this two-hour workshop, we will explore place as a living, breathing thing. Through reading, discussion and writing exercises, we will think of writing as a way of staying with a place’s histories, contradictions and possibilities.

This workshop is part of a series of events marking the launch of Nur Turkmani’s debut poetry collection, October, reflecting on transformation and loss over six autumns in Lebanon since 2019.

This event is a collaboration between Hajar Press, Maqam Books and Mosaic Rooms.

Places are very limited. Please only book if you are sure to attend.
Image: Portraits of Nur Turkmani and Heba Hayek. Courtesy of the artists