Hidden Histories and Lost Voices with Dreena Collins
Finding and writing the stories of people who didn’t win history.
Beginnings, Belonging & Beyond
How do people’s origins influence who they are and how do these nuances play out when a character ventures far from home?
Writing The Sound Of Home
Global sounds, inherited songs and music collections, and club culture can act as archives of diaspora experience. Writers will be asked to consider their own musical markers of “home”.
The Writers’ HQ (Literary) Submission Orgy
It’s all very well pushing the button on your own in a darkened room, but it’s much more fun with friends…
Art & Anti-Ableism with Lydia Wilkins
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?
What Our Past Can Tell Us About Writing Our Present with Mara Livermore
Radical worldbuilding and strengthened storytelling with arts from the ancestors
Breaking the Mould with Marcella Rick
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.
Unpacking Heritage: Reflecting on Identity and Privilege with Tunji Offeyi
A thoughtful exploration of heritage, identity, history, and privilege through awareness and understanding of how history shapes contemporary social dynamics.
Stereotypical Tropes in Working Class Writing with Kathy Hoyle
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.
Writing as Resistance Support Group with Sarah Lewis
A mid-month check-in support group type of affair for anyone writing a story as part of the Writing as Resistance Festival.