Writing a Sense of Place

We are really looking forward to welcoming you to ‘Writing A Sense of Place’. 

Do you want to craft a sense of place in your writing, strong enough to pin your characters to the spot and to transport your readers directly to them?

Award-winning novelist Sheena Kalayil (The Others, The Bureau of Second Chances) will be sharing her advice on how to create an immersive sense of place in your writing. 

She'll share techniques for bringing a place to life on the page and situating your characters and your story within it, across both contemporary fiction and historical fiction. She'll discuss the key things to keep in mind when writing a place you've never lived in, when writing a familiar place and when writing a familiar place at an unfamiliar time. Plus she'll discuss how much importance to place on research when writing real places.

Sheena will also explore place through language, offering tips on evoking a linguistic landscape and writing multi-lingual and diverse characters.

The key details of the session are below, as well as the link you’ll need to join this online masterclass. 

When: 25th June, 12:30pm-1:30pm, UK time

Where: Online

Joining Link: Writing A Sense of Place | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

You can download Teams free on your computer, or join via the web: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-teams/download-app 

We’ll also be recording the session, which we’ll make available to you to watch for two weeks after the event itself.