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Posted on Monday June 23, 2025

Updated on Monday June 23, 2025

Food and Fairytale - creative writing workshop

This creative writing workshop - organised by Europeana - will use illustrations and imagery from the collections available on Europeana.eu to explore fairy tales and food, from hunger and longing, to challenge and transformation.

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Title:
Hänsel und Gretel
Creator:
by Reinecke, Hans (Herstellung) (Fotograf)
Institution:
Deutsche Fotothek
Country:
Germany
6 August 2025
15:00 — 16:00
(CEST)
Online


Poisoned apples, magic porridge pots, peas you can feel through 20 mattresses, and of course
that fantastic gingerbread house - food plays a significant role in literature, and fairy tales are
no exception. 

In this creative writing workshop, we'll use illustrations and imagery from the collections available on Europeana.eu to explore fairy tales and food, from hunger and longing, to challenge and transformation.

We’ll do some gentle warm-up exercises and free-writing to spark inspiration and get the words flowing, and then we’ll delve into some longer prompts to give you chance to explore your own ideas.

By combining practical writing exercises with a supportive writers’ circle feel, you’ll achieve great things in the session and leave with tools, resources and ideas to keep the stories coming.

You can write in any language. There is no obligation to share your work. No experience is required. Come and enjoy an hour of creativity!

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