Date: Thursday, 23rd of July

Location: Round Table Books CIC, 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PR (next to Honest Burger)

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

The booking price includes a copy of Edna’s book, Tending to Our Wounds

Join Edna Bonhomme, critic, journalist, and historian of science. for an exclusive non-fiction writing workshop. Edna is a 2026 finalist for the 2026 Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle.

Edna’s book, Tending to Our Wounds, is a profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders.

With astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and Germany, discovering what it means to be Black at home and abroad. She unlearns the lies that she was told about slavery and colonialism and explores how communities are resisting the weight of centuries of history. Whether examining debt, medical racism, art, or reparations, Tending to Our Wounds cuts a breathtaking course between the past and the present, the individual and the collective—identifying the tendrils of history in the everyday and outlining a path to real freedom.

Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Scientific American, and elsewhere. She is the author of A History of the World in Six Plagues (shortlisted for Best Science Book in Austria) and co-editor of After Sex. She has been based in Berlin since 2017.

This workshop is designed for writers who want to explore personal storytelling through a decolonial lens. Together, participants will examine how history, identity, culture, and systems of power shape individual lives and memories. Rather than treating memoir as a simple record of the past, the workshop invites writers to question dominant narratives, recover silenced voices, and centre lived experiences that have often been overlooked or marginalised.

Books and refreshments from Round Table’s Bar will be available for purchase on the night.