Upcoming Events
Annual Salon in Brussels September 2025
When: 12-14 September 2025
Where: Full Circle Brussels
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Our Annual Salon will include three days of open mics, featured readings, workshops, and panels—interspersed with wine, cheese, camaraderie and engagement with our wonderful host city. Most of it will take place in the beautiful Full Circle event space in Flagey, Brussels' vibrant cultural Art Nouveau and Art Deco neighbourhood.
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In addition to Full Circle events, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in tours, writing in a local park, and a welcome dinner. For a taste of this event on a smaller scale, check out our Past Events page, where we detail the inspiring trial salon we held in September 2024.
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​Save the dates, and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on this and other events. Booking will open early in 2025 and tickets will be limited. We hope to see you there!
Pop-up Salon: Madrid
When: 16 October 2025, 7 pm GMT
Where: Desperate Literature
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EWS is travelling to Madrid to host an open mic salon in partnership with international bookstore, Desperate Literature. All are welcome!
We'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from Madrid and across Europe in a friendly setting.
Further details will be made available nearer the time, including how to sign up to read and exact timings.
This will be a friendly and welcoming event - if you are planning on coming alone, don't worry! We will be in touch with everyone in advance and will arrange opportunities to meet/write/eat/book accommodation together around the evening event so that everyone meets new people and feels part of our community.
Ticket prices include wine and soft drinks.
We look forward to meeting you in Madrid!
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Book here.
Online Open Mic Salon
When: 28 October 2025, 7-8:30 CET
Where: Online via Zoom (link sent on registration)
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Back by popular demand, our online open mic salon hosted by Kik Lodge. This event is free.
As always, we’ll talk books, get to know each other through an open mic reading, and take a highly serious and competitive quiz. This month’s quiz theme: Road Signs.
Reading spots have filled up, but we’d love for you to come along for the rest of the fun. BYO wine. We prioritise those who haven't read before, so make sure you subscribe to our newsletter to grab a reading spot next time! Book here.
When: 26 November 2025, 7pm CET
Where: Online
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Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing
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Suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which…my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.”
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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“I believe that in each of us there is a small piece of history. In one half a page, in another two or three. Together we write the book of time. We each call out our own truth. The nightmare of nuances.”
Svetlana Alexievich, War's Unwomanly Face
In this workshop led by writer Susanna Crossman, we’ll be looking at memory enhancement and how we use objects, archives and history (social history and micro-history) in life writing. We’ll do practical exercises using our senses and physical objects to create compelling narratives Then, we’ll look at using archives and history as generative tools, and how we can integrate these into personal stories, collaging elements together to create powerful, evocative stories-within-a-story.
For this session you’ll need to come along with a physical object (this could be a cup, a jumper, a ticket…) related to a life- writing project that you’d like to develop. The writing project can be for a book, a personal essay or a short piece.
Susanna Crossman is an award-winning Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist, published internationally in print and online. She’s author of the the acclaimed memoir Home is Where we Start, (Fig Tree/Penguin, 2024), about her childhood in a utopian commune, a Guardian 2024 “Book to Look Out For!” Her new novel, The Orange Notebooks was published by Bluemoose Books (UK) and Assembly Press (NA) in 2025. She has recent work in The Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review, Electric Literature & elsewhere. A publisher novelist in France, she was a 2022 Hawthornden Fellow, and will be resident at Hosking Houses Trust in 2025. Winner of the 2019 LoveReading Short Story Award, she was nominated for Best of The Net Non-Fiction and is a member of the Dangerous Women project. Susanna grew up in an international commune. Alongside her writing, she now works as clinicals arts-therapist on three continents, teaches and mentors writers.
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Book here.
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