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SUMMARY:Writing the Archive Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Syd Moore\nWriting the Archive\nSaturday 27 June 2026\, 10.30am - 12.30pm\nHarlow Museum & Walled Gardens\, Muskham Road\, Harlow\, CM20 2LF\nJoin best-selling author Syd Moore for a special writing workshop using objects from the archives of Harlow Museum to inspire your work.\n\nExplore the archive at Harlow Museum - the collection holds a huge variety of paper-based documents\, including original town plans\, photos\, parish registers\, newspapers\, and books. All these items contain rare and invaluable information about Harlow from the time of the individual parishes\, through the new town era\, up to the present day. The various items included within the archives provide a unique insight into the people who lived in the town and their way of life over multiple decades.\n\nDuring this writing workshop best-selling author\, Syd Moore\, will guide you through using items from the Harlow Museum collection to inspire you to write your own piece of creative work.\n\nThis workshop is for writers of all abilities - all welcome.\n\nTickets: £20 / £15 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nBox Office: eventbrite.co.uk\n\n \n\nPart of our Harlow weekend - Essex Book Festival is delighted to be heading to Harlow for a weekend of writing workshops\, author and artist talks\, family games\, and poetry. Find out more at essexbookfestival.org.uk/harlow-weekend/.\n\n\n\nSyd Moore has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow and is currently working with them to pioneer 'Reading Round' courses in hospices. Her novel The Witching Hour was a Top Twenty bestselling horror title of 2024. She was the first Author in Residence for Essex Libraries and is best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries\, which was shortlisted for the\nGood Reader Holmes and Watson Award in 2018 and 2019. She has been shortlisted twice for a CWA dagger for her short stories. Syd founded the Essex Girls' Liberation Front and successfully removed the term ‘Essex girl’ from the Oxford dictionary in 2020. She lives in Essex.\n\nSyd Moore will also be taking part in an author event later in the day in the Walled Gardens at Harlow Museum\, talking about her latest novel\, The Great Deception - the second in her thrilling new series about Britain’s secret wartime history.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:http://35.176.91.154/event/writing-the-archive-3/
LOCATION:Muskham Road\, Harlow\, Essex\, CM20 2LF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:For Writers,Workshop
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