How to keep writing, prepare for the future, and stop yourself from losing your goddamn mind

Explore process-oriented writing practices that stem from our movements and emotions. Learn to be present and write from wherever you’re at.

A mid-month check-in support group type of affair for anyone writing a story as part of the Writing as Resistance Festival.

Radical worldbuilding and strengthened storytelling with arts from the ancestors

A thoughtful exploration of heritage, identity, history, and privilege through awareness and understanding of how history shapes contemporary social dynamics.

It’s all very well pushing the button on your own in a darkened room, but it’s much more fun with friends…

What does writing as resistance actually mean and who is doing it? Plus a toolkit for rebellious writers at large

Explore working-class stereotypes and how we can subvert the traditional tropes of poverty, misery and hopeless characters and instead write rich, vibrant stories that cover the vast breadth of the working-class experience.

Explore why stories are important, how to get deeper into our own writing practice, and the power we can find in acts of communal creative imagining. The first of the free Mass Submission Project workshops.

Write urgent, plausible futures, challenge the status quo and explore from “what if” to “what’s next”.

What happens when we step away from the traditional three act structure or linear story and make a big ol’ mess of our stories?

Knowing how to write sex well can be tricky. This 90 minute writing session with Leone Ross will explore what makes good (and bad) sex writing, and how to write something authentic and impassioned.

The world is a series of power structures, and writing political literature feels especially important right now. From James Baldwin to James Joyce, from Margaret…

An ekphrastic writing workshops from Europeana.eu – a vast database of European digital culture heritage.

Weaving the relationship between climate justice, our bodies, the word and stories, we explore what is at stake in the relationship between human and nonhuman being. The second in the Mass Submission Project workshops.

How we might create stories that celebrate and reclaim our own rich culture and heritage by weaving colloquial dialect and cultural references and into our work to create a sense of place, person and story.

There are so many narratives that we take for granted, so how do we find different stories and dismantle the assumptions we all make and that keep us locked in to the same damaging behaviours?

How can we use diverse genres to break through denial, challenge assumptions and inspire new thinking? Take a romp across genres with a lively panel discussion and practical exercises.

Your inner clown just might save the world. Let’s find the funny in armageddon and pulverise the patriarchy one punchline at a time.

A collaborative brainstorming session exploring how queerness, locale and disabilities shape the writing process. Identify the moulds you want to break free from when planning and writing their own stories.

What stories do we have a right to tell? Why does it matter whose stories get told or how different communities are represented in literature? With Kaia Allen-Bevan

How do we tell ‘the story’ of disability, and who has the right to tell those tales? Why does it matter how we talk and who talks about disability? What responsibility do we have when it comes to representation and how do we take up that cause?