A event held at Arnolfini on Sunday 19th April. The event starts at 11:15.
Date: Sunday 19th April 2026
Venue: Arnolfini (Community Workshop)
Time: 11:15 - 13:00
Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £6 concessions)
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Crafting Your Stories: with Musa Okwonga
Writing Workshop
Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, for adults or for children, join Musa Okwonga for a morning of creative inspiration. This workshop will help you to sharpen the tools with which you craft your stories: to give them yet further texture, depth and emotional power.
Artist Bios:
Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga is an award-winning author whose work explores culture, politics and society. He studied law at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has written eight books. The co-host of the Stadio football podcast, his recent publications include One of Them: An Eton College Memoir (2021), In The End, It Was All About Love (2021), and Striking Out (co-authored with Ian Wright), (2021), winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year Award. He lives in Berlin.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2026
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