Dave Haslam, author of the memoir Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor and books including My Second Home: Sylvia Plath in Paris, 1956, leads us through strategies to express a true story or life events in a way that incorporates imagination, subjectivity, novelistic elements, and unconventional structures. The workshop is aimed at aspiring and early career writers, and will include works by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Deborah Levy.

Dave Haslam is an author, broadcaster and DJ based in Manchester. His books include Manchester, England, Life After Dark and the forthcoming Creative Journeys, drawing on four decades of conversations with some of the most compelling voices in music, literature, film and art.  His Art Decades series includes A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes: How I Survived Selling My Record Collection; We the Youth: Keith Haring’s New York Nightlife and Strawberry and the Big Apple: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980.

Location: Manchester Central Library