Bath and North East Somerset Libraries

In this workshop, Nathan will lead participants through a series of writing exercises that draw on personal experience and narrative techniques. The emphasis is on craft rather than confession: building scenes, choosing detail, and shaping lived material into clear, engaging prose. The session explores how writing from life can raise questions of meaning and wellbeing without reducing experience to simple messages or resolutions. Suitable for writers of all levels.

Nathan Filer is a former mental health nurse. His novel The Shock of the Fall won the Costa Book of the Year, the Betty Trask Prize and the National Book Award for Popular Fiction. It was translated into thirty languages. His nonfiction book, The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. His other works include the ARIAS prize-winning podcast Why Do I Feel? He holds a PhD in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where he also teaches and conducts research in mental health and creativity.

This event is part of the Words Alive in Libraries tour, presented by South Western Regional Library Services and Literature Works, and funded by Arts Council England. More ​tour events can be found here.

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