Creative writing: Libraries through time

Use your imagination to explore the place of libraries in the 21st century in this relaxed session.

This session will encourage us to reflect upon what libraries mean to us today. We will consider the function that libraries play in our ever-more-digital world and explore how technology both helps and hinders the work of librarians and the access to literature for readers everywhere.

Please come with a note or drawing of one thing you love about modern libraries, and one thing that troubles you about modern libraries, or their place in our society.

The workshop will begin and end with embodied movement and relaxation to help us connect to ourselves, one another and the space. We will share ideas and engage in a series of experimental writing exercises. This workshop will also include a tour of the National Library of Scotland.

Please wear comfortable clothes and bring whatever you love to write on and with.

This session is the second in a three-part series creatively responding to memories of libraries in our past, libraries of the present and the future. Participants can choose to attend one, two, or all three of the sessions in the series. Future sessions will be advertised later in the year.

About the workshop leader

Jennifer Williams is a poet and creator of Utopia Lab at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.