Workshop Registration - HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY REVIEW

THIS WORKSHOP WAS HELD ON OCTOBER 25, 2025
YOU CAN PURCHASE THE RECORDING HERE

YOU WILL RECEIVE 2 RECORDINGS:

• THEORETICAL PART - duration 3 hours
• PRACTICAL PART - duration 3 hours

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE LINK TO VIEW THE RECORDINGS AND THE HANDOUT PREPARED BY THE TEACHER WITHIN 24 HOURS OF ORDERING.

Workshop led by Debora Lambruschini.

"A critic who takes his job seriously must always place himself at the reader's disinterested service, thus also warning them about bad books, especially those whose success is assured, guided, or remote-controlled." This was said by Grazia Cherchi, literary critic and editor. A lesson that still holds true today.

But what does the work of a literary critic involve, and why does it concern us as readers? What is a literary review, and how do you write it? How do you read critically, and why is it important to learn how to do so, even if you don't write?

In this workshop, Debora Lambruschini (literary critic, literature and writing teacher, cultural event organizer, and editor) will take us behind the scenes of literary criticism and text editing to learn the tools needed to write a literary review and how to read critically.
We will follow the steps that lead from critical reading of texts to the production of a review, closely observing various examples and discussing useful tools, methodology, and critical discourse.
Participants will test themselves by producing a review of the selected text, which will be analyzed during the lesson:

The course is aimed at readers, those who already have writing experience or are beginners, those who write or those who wish to approach the publishing world.

PLAN
o Notes on literary criticism: interpretation, critical analysis, dissemination, critical reviews
o Reading critically: key steps for conscious reading that is preparatory to writing work
o What is literary review?
o Working on the text part I: things to take into account when reading
o Approach narrative texts of different nature (novels, short stories, novellas, hybrid texts)
o Work on the text part II: completed the full reading of the text, organization of notes, book journal, material for writing the review
o The voice, the critical judgment on the text, the destination newspaper, the opinions
o Review of the produced text
or Get to Work! Preparatory work for a literary review of the text selected for the course: The Secret Coup by Jessica Anthony ed. Sur
o Reading and further study ideas
o Useful examples of literary reviews

The workshop is organized in collaboration with Debora Lambruschini : editor, cultural events organizer, content creator and press office, Debora is a literature teacher, specializing in English and North American culture.
She collaborates with magazines including criticaletteraria.org and osservatoriocattedrale.com , and she created and coordinates an online reading group and a film club, as well as an in-person reading group. She cultivates words, both her own and those of others, through targeted writing and reading projects. And, needless to say, she has a passion for stationery and can't live without a book journal to track the readings, interviews, inspiration, and research that inform her editorial work.