Writing Through The Apocalypse

Monday 01 September
7:00 pm BST
Free for Gold Star Members
How to keep writing, prepare for the future, and stop yourself from losing your goddamn mind

WHEN

Monday 01 September
7:00 pm –
8:00 pm

WHERE

Online

HOW MUCH

Free for Gold Star Members

HOST

SarahWHQ

Welp, the apocalypse is really going for it right now. We’ve got America with the most stupid fascist coup in history, followed by the predicted-and-ignored-for-60-years Arctic melt, and add to that at least three genocides currently going on across the world. What the fuck is one tiny writer of weird-ass fiction supposed to do?

We know you can often feel despondent or think it’s pointless to carry on writing with all this going on. A lot of us are feeling like we want to do something, but have no idea what.  

You don’t have to seduce Nazis, lead them to secluded woods and shoot them in the head to fight the fash. (Or you don’t ONLY have to do that). The writer exists to look at how things are and how things could be, to look at the world and reflect it back to itself.

With horror at every turn, Writers’ HQ will be here doing what we’ve always done: building true community with our writers, supporting you all to keep on going even when everything feels like hopeless bullshit, and helping you do the deep work you need to write the stories that need to be told.

Join us for this intimate and interactive community workshop, marking the launch the Writing as Resistance Festival, helping you to keep writing, prepare for the future, and stop yourself from losing your goddamn mind.

Here’s the agenda:

What are writers for?
How to understand your place as a writer when faced with multiple existential crises

How to keep engaged without burning out
Looking after yourself, writing during the apocalypse style

What to write now?
Writing exercises and prompts to help you get deeper into your work, using ideas from renown philosophers and writers

You know how this works: the good guys always win. The bad guys always lose. Our stories will show us the way. And hey, what luck, we’re the good guys. We can do this ✊

This event is hosted by ✨SarahWHQ✨

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Sarah Lewis has run Writers' HQ for the last decade which has allowed her to indulge in her two greatest passions: lighting a fire up the under the procrastinating arses of renegade writers and talking endlessly about how important stories are.

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