21 April,
Workshop /
Nikesh Shukla: Writing The World
Tuesday, 21 April 2026, 6:00pm
Online Event / €45
Book NowWe cannot ignore the times we are living in. To write now is to write in the midst of ongoing horrors, technological advancements and constant rolling news. Stories may offer escape but they also bear witness to the times we are living in. This generative workshop, filled with writing exercises, extracts from other writers and thoughts on how to bring the world as it is into the world we wish to create on the page, this workshop will help you to get through these times by documenting them in only the way you know how.
Nikesh is a novelist and screenwriter, who wrote a Spider-Man comic book miniseries for Marvel as well as numerous television projects. Most recently, he released his first children’s book, called The Council Of Good Friends.
Nikesh wrote the award-winning short film, Two Dosas, a Channel 4 Comedy Lab called Kabadasses and the award-winning short film, The Great Identity Swindle, and has worked in numerous writer’s rooms both in the UK and US for HBO, Prime, BBC, Sky, and Apple. Nikesh is a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the Royal Society of Literature. Nikesh is a columnist for the Bristol Cable.
He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader’s choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up.
Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’scultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller’s 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh’s memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. He has also written a book on writing called Your Story Matters.
Nikesh teaches creative writing for Faber Academy.
