This workshop is a two-day bootcamp for creatives who want to learn how to promote themselves and their work more effectively. Whether you’re a writer, artist, designer, crafter or musician, you’ll learn how to think like a marketer and apply what you learn to shine a spotlight onto the great work you do. You’ll leave … Read more
by Salwa Benaissa Christmas is as good a time of a year as any to present a roundup of our favourite bookshops in Berlin but the truth is, indie bookshops are the lifeblood of our writing community no matter the season. Not only do they supply us with endless amounts of amazing reads and host … Read more
We are delighted to announce our first weekend workshop for 2021 with Mikaella Clements, who will be guiding us through our favourite genre (admit it), Romance! This one day workshop invites you to try your hand at writing those very scenes that make you fall in love with characters in books, and learn to understand … Read more
There’s nothing quite like falling in love, and nothing better than a story that makes you feel the same dizzying, swoon-worthy joy. But how do you craft a believable and romantic relationship that your readers will believe in? How do you create sexual tension? How do you keep your lovers apart (and then bring them … Read more
Fresh from the triumph (our words!) of her online reading series, Divya Ghelani will be offering a fantastic one-day workshop this November. This one-day generative fiction workshop invites you to conjure new story ideas through the close examination of passages from contemporary novels by women & non-binary people of colour. You will be galvanized to … Read more
Have you ever been trying to do five things at once at six in the morning, still half-asleep and then realised that yes, yes, in fact you have deleted a mailing list ten years in the making? Because that’s what I did, folks. So if you’d like newsletters about our workshops, courses, retreats and events, … Read more
We hope you’re doing okay. Us? We’re bearing up. At the heart of The Reader is our commitment to Berlin’s literary community… so while we’d love to see you and desperately miss our usual line up of events, we’re also being careful. We are offering in person weekend workshops, just fewer of them. We’ve also … Read more
From October onwards, we’ve got a brand new line up of evening courses for you! From poetry, to creative non-fiction, fiction writing, scriptwriting and more… Check them all out here!
Michael Jeffrey Lee’s first collection, Something in My Eye, received the Mary McCarthy Prize and was published by Sarabande. His second collection, My Worst Ideas, is forthcoming in 2023 from Spurl Editions. His stories have appeared in N+1, BOMB, The Rupture, and The Southern Review, among others. He has taught fiction at Tulane University, the University of Louisiana, and … Read more
