Forest Hill Folk Tales
Thursday 25 August 2016, 12–1.30pm V22 Louise House
Using true stories and fragments of history from Sydenham Hill Wood and the wider Great North Wood area, visitors are invited to create new short stories in the form of folk tales. The local woods have a rich past, including gypsies, hermits, poets and painters, as well as providing a home to bats, butterflies, foxes and trees with their own folklore.
Together, visitors will look at real folk tales to inform their own writing during the second part of the session, using local history and nature as inspiration. There will also be the chance to put your story in a capsule and hide it in the V22 garden, for others to find...
The workshop will be run by Zoe Gilbert, a local writer whose work is largely inspired by folk tales. She won the Costa Short Story Award 2014, teaches creative writing workshops at London Lit Lab, and is studying for a PhD on folk tales in fiction.
Suitable for adults and young people from age 10 and upwards.
Anyone under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
Venue info
V22 Louise House
Dartmouth Road
Forest Hill
London
SE23 3HZ
(Between Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill Library)
Overground: Forest Hill
Bus: 122, 176, 197
