#HomeBy10 Short Story & Flash Fiction Workshop - In aid of Leicester Charity Quetzel

4 SEPTEMBER 2020 – OCTOBER 10, Online and live from the kitchen 

Home by 10 – a festival of new writing

Home by 10 Fest is a new writing festival designed to help take your writing career to the next level.

To celebrate its 10th birthday Dahlia Books presents #Homeby10 Fest, an online event taking place across 10 days in October. Bringing various strands of our our work together for the first time, #Homeby10 aims to support new and emerging writers by offering advice and inspiration through a series of talks and workshops.

Featuring myself, Laura Besley, Susmita Bhattacharya, CG Menon, Rebecca Burns, Deepa Anappara, Rishi Dastidar, Emma Smith-Barton, Laura Pearson, Vaseem Khan and Kia Abdullah alongside exciting new voices.

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Divya’s Pre-festival Zoom Creative Writing workshop:

Friday 4 September - Short Story & Flash Fiction Charity Workshop with Divya Ghelani, 7.30-9 pm

This is the perfect generative workshop for those wishing to experiment and play by creating new short fiction! Participants will be offered a range of stimulus-based writing exercises to help them conjure new settings, characters, and voices. Expect to leave with new story drafts and ideas for many more!

Suitable for: Aged 16 plus

Cost £10 (minimum donation)All money raised goes to the charitable organisation Quetzal and their Breaking The Silence Initiative. Through this initiative, the charity aims to raise awareness about the trauma of childhood sexual abuse and the value of counseling in South Asian communities in Leicester City using a community-based approach. To highlight Quetzal’s important work, Divya will close her workshop with a specially designed writing prompt based on healing and recovery. Read here for more information on what Quetzal do:  http://quetzal.org.uk/breaking-the-silence-initiative-leicester/

Divya Ghelani was born in Gujarat and grew up in Loughborough. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Literary Studies from the University of Hong Kong. She lives between Berlin and the UK where she has published short stories and judged story and flash fiction competitions. She is working on her first novel. Visit  www.divyaghelani.com