CITY CITY CITY CITY, GAY GAY GAY - a writing workshop led by George Lynch.
Saturday 12th September 2026; 12pm - 3pm
London Paddington Library, W2 5DU
On September 12th 2026, writer George Lynch is hosting a reading and writing workshop on the relationship between being gay and being a city as part of Tenderbooks’ Open Narratives programme.
The workshop will begin with a reading and discussion around excerpts from Samuel Delany’s Times Sq Red, Times Sq Blue and Jane Jacobs’ The Life and Death of Great American Cities. Together you will follow the idea of looking for queerness where it doesn’t declare itself, an experiment into thinking about what queerness DOES as well as what it IS. A way of seeing queerness as activity instead of identity…
We’ll read and talk a bit, and that will all be a way into doing some writing of our own.
George Lynch is a writer. Recent publications of their work include: Oxford Poetry, Fieldnotes Journal, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Datableed Journal. Their work involves performance. As both a performer and director, they have shown work at Galerie Molitor (Berlin), CCA Glasgow, London Performance Studios and Cafe Oto, among others. They program and produce events at The Horse Hospital. In 2025, they founded The Horse Hospital Collective.
Capacity is limited so please RSVP to hello@tenderbooks.co.uk
Open Narratives is a publishing and events programme highlighting LGBTQIA+ voices through a series of newly commissioned printed matter, live readings, exhibitions and workshops. Open Narratives at Tenderbooks is funded by Arts Council England.