Mon, May 11
|Barcelona
Truth and Storytelling
Jayne Marshall and Carys Shannon explore the creative space where reality and imagination meet
Time & Location
May 11, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Barcelona, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
About the event
How do writers draw from real life without being bound by it? What responsibility do they have to the truth and to their readers?
In this conversation, Jayne Marshall and Carys Shannon explore the creative space where reality and imagination meet. The discussion will also consider how truth itself can become a storytelling device - a trope used to build tension, subvert expectation, or explore emotional weight within a narrative.
Join Jayne and Carys for a thoughtful exploration of authenticity, invention and truth in storytelling.
About the speakers:
Jayne Marshall is fiction writer and essayist. She holds the master’s in creative writing, with distinction, from the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies around the world, including in the Bath Spa University affiliated Transnational Literature (UK), Prairie Schooner (USA) and as a finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize (UK). Her debut story and essay…