No Fucks To Give: Considering Your Erotic Truth

Sex will find its way!

In some form, implied or explicit, into much of our writing. In popular culture it is equally celebrated and maligned, used to express love, but also power and fear. Writers can approach it in many and diverse ways, but knowing how to do it well, and without it feeling clinical or cliched, 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.

What You’ll Get

A 90 minute webinar with exercises with Leone Ross, author of This One Sky Day and Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Who You Are

• A writer who wants to explore new ways of telling stories
• A writer who wants to explore more about the importance, politics and power of stories
• A writer who wants to participate in a communal creative project
• A newbie or oldbie who wants to have some writing fun
• Anyone!

About Leone Ross

Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer and editor. Her fiction has been nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths award, the RSL Ondaatje award, and the Edge Hill Prize, among others. In 2022, she won the Manchester Prize for Fiction for her short story, ‘When We Went Gallivanting’. The Guardian has praised her ‘searing empathy’ and the Times Literary Supplement called her ‘a pointilliste, a master of detail…’ Ross has taught creative writing for 20 years, up to PhD level. Her most recent novel is This One Sky Day aka Popisho (Faber & Faber). Ross is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction (2022, Peepal Tree Press).