Julia Bell
LitFestPlus: Creative Writing in an age of AI
Date: Saturday 31 October
Venue: Upstairs at E. Street Bar & Grill
Time: 2.00pm
Ticket: £19 (adults) £10 (under 18)
All ticket prices include a £2 booking fee (up to £10 per transaction).
A partner event to the morning’s memoir workshop.
In a session aimed at anyone with ambitions to write, Julia Bell - Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck and author of Between the Lines and the reissued Radical Attention - argues that the rise of generative AI hasn’t made creative writing obsolete - it has made it more necessary.
Drawing on philosophy, pedagogy, and nearly thirty years of teaching, she makes the case for writing as a practice of attention: a way of slowing down, looking closely, and thinking for ourselves in a culture engineered to do the opposite. A talk for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or simply wonders what we lose when we let the machines do the noticing.
LitFestPlus is the brand-new series of events where we go beyond our core series of author talks and invite you to participate in special sessions - walking, discussing, and investigating different aspects of the written and spoken word.