Love & Desire - A Creative Writing Workshop + Food, Drinks, & a FREE Book!

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Hi there ✨

Whoever you are, you’re warmly invited to join us for a full-day writing workshop exploring the themes of Love & Desire on Saturday 27th June in Old Street, London 📍

We’ll spend the day reading excerpts and poems about love and desire, then writing to prompts, with food & drink, space to think, and time to write something honest, strange, or quietly intense ☕🍷

Together, we’ll be exploring love in a variety of forms: tenderness, lust, queer desire, and heartbreak 💌

We’ll be drawing inspiration from poets such as Sappho, Audre Lorde, Pablo Neruda, Adrienne Rich, John Donne, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Natalie Diaz, and Richard Siken 📚

Alongside short readings and extracts, we’ll be writing throughout the day using guided prompts and exercises 🌿

What do we mean by Love & Desire?

Tenderness: affection, intimacy, and the quiet ways love shows up in everyday life 🤍

Desire: attraction, lust, obsession, and the intensity of wanting or being wanted 🔥

Heartbreak: endings, longing, memory, and what lingers after love changes shape 🌙
We’ll move through these themes using poems as sparks rather than rules, letting language unfold naturally 🌀

So, what’s the plan? 🗓️

• Arrive at the venue for tea or coffee and a gentle warm-up writing session ☕
• Settle into reading, conversation, supported exploration, and lots of writing ✍️
• Break for lunch together nearby 🥗
• Head back in for an afternoon of deeper writing and creative experiments 🌿
• End the day with a drink and optional sharing of work in a relaxed space 🍷

What’s included? 🎁

• A full-day poetry workshop with guided writing exercises ✨
• Tea or coffee on arrival ☕
• Brunch included 🥗
• A drink in the afternoon 🍷
• Literary handouts and prompts to take home 📄
• A small book gift to continue your writing beyond the day 📚

What do you need to bring? 🎒

• Yourself, and your attention 🙌
• A notebook and pen, or a laptop if you prefer 🖊️
• Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to write without pressure 🌱

Our style 🌿

We create a friendly, inclusive, and supportive atmosphere, and everyone is welcome 💜

No prior experience with writing is needed 🌈

There is no pressure to share your writing unless you want to 🙅

You can participate quietly, actively, or somewhere in between, at your own pace ✨

Warm wishes for now,

Sean
(A Write & a Pint)