Collective Memory Through Food Writing with Zoe Adjonyoh

Intimate creative writing workshop exploring how food memories can become powerful stories of identity, belonging, love, grief and life. Collective Memory Through Food Writing: Sensory Approaches to Memoir and Life Writing with Zoe Adjonyoh. Use food memories to unlock powerful stories in this intimate creative writing workshop. No writing experience needed. This 2-hour workshop explores how food and sensory memory can be used as tools for memoir, life writing and collective storytelling. Participants will examine how taste, smell and texture can unlock emotional and embodied memories, while revealing unexpected connections between people across class, race, gender and cultural experience. Writers will learn how to: • Use sensory detail to deepen memoir and life writing. • Explore food as a storytelling device. • Develop short reflective or narrative prose from memory. • Consider how collective memory can shape personal narratives. Part of WOL @ Family Day Take Part 2026 programme Event details Date and time: Saturday 7 November 2026, 2pm-4pm Venue: Brighton Museum - Museum Lab. Upstairs in the former reference library and History Centre at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. Address: Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1EE Tickets: Free Accessibility: Fully wheelchair accessible. There are lifts to get to the first floor. Who’s this workshop for? This workshop is open to everyone. About Zoe Adjonyoh Zoe Adjonyoh is a writer, food educator and author of Zoe's Ghana Kitchen. She studied Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths and is currently completing a memoir exploring memory, identity and inheritance through food. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Epicurious, Splendid Table, Daughters of Africa and Black Food. Her workshops explore food as a shared emotional language and use sensory memory to open new approaches to memoir and life writing. Instagram: @zoe_araba_adjonyoh, @thecircularpantry, @ghanakitchen Headshot: Will Edgecombe Writing Our Legacy @ Family Day Take Part Writing Our Legacy is pleased to be a partner for this year’s Family Day Take Part at Brighton Dome and Brighton Museum. Join us for the return of Brighton’s biggest free celebration of arts, music, history, performances, spoken word culture and heritage. This uplifting intergenerational event will take you on a journey across continents as we honour the outstanding contributions of the Global Majority and the diaspora communities in our vibrant city. Bring yourself or your family and friends and take part in a day full of joy, creativity, and connection! Whether you’re looking to get active, explore your artistic side, or just spend quality time together, there’s something for everyone! This year’s festival is brought to you by African Night Fever in partnership with Brighton and Hove Black History, Writing Our Legacy, Brighton Dome and Brighton Museum. About the workshop and funders This workshop is part of our Covert Literary Magazine Issue 7, themed ‘Ghana’. This issue is funded by Beyond Literature Borders from the British Council and Speaking Volumes, and Writing Our Legacy’s Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisation funding. This project is delivered in partnership with Writers Project of Ghana. For this issue, we welcome Guest Editors: Martin Egblewogbe (Ghana), Mamle Kabu (Ghana), Derek Owusu (UK) and Zoe Adjonyoh (UK), plus our Editorial Board: Elizabeth Johnson (Ghana), Mamle Kabu (Ghana), Anni Domingo (UK), Akila Richards (UK) and Amy Glass (UK). About Covert Literary Magazine Covert Literary Magazine is a yearly publication of literature and visual art for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse writers and artists of colour. The magazine is based in Brighton, UK and was established in 2020. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms and artwork, with future issues embracing more experimental, journalism and audio visual content. Our aim is to provide a platform for new and underrepresented diverse talent for whom mainstream publishing opportunities are inaccessible, whose work is reviewed, edited and published alongside more established names. About Writers Project of Ghana Writers Project of Ghana (WPG) is a literary arts organisation focused on increasing the visibility of Ghanaian writers and creating networking opportunities between them and their counterparts across the globe. Through dedicated programming such as workshops, readings, and publications, and by organising the annual Pa Gya! organizing the annual Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra, Writers Project of Ghana remains committed to working with partners to deliver on our objective. WPG is excited by this partnership with WOL and looks forward to the process leading to the publication and launch of the special edition of Covert Literary Magazine. About Speaking Volumes Speaking Volumes was founded in the UK in 2010. As a small, independent organisation with no core funding, but which has created its own opportunities to work across the UK and abroad, they have in-depth experience and an understanding of the challenges involved in both international working and uplifting unheard voices in the literature sector. Speaking Volumes has developed a reputation for supporting underrepresented writers from around the world through events, publications and professional resources, and by creating international platforms for them to share their work. Over the last decade they have conceived various ongoing projects run in collaboration with partners across Europe and the USA eg their long-term Breaking Ground series. This has made them cognisant of the many benefits of such projects including, among others: establishing a solid network of international contacts; developing mutual trust and exchanging expertise; growing opportunities for underrepresented artists from both the UK and abroad; and inspiring new project ideas. About the British Council The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2024-25 we reached 600 million people. The Literature team in the UK work together with colleagues in British Council offices in over 100 countries around the world on programmes that help to build those important connections and increase mutual knowledge and understanding. The connections they build through arts and culture transform lives and create positive change. The British Council is working with independent literature organisation Speaking Volumes to roll out the Beyond Literature Borders Grant Programme. This scheme is a pilot which aims to enable the British Council to support a wider diversity of literature projects and organisations.