Join us on 16th November for this workshop exploring liberation through climate!
This is a rescheduled event originally part of World Con.
All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy. You can learn more about our policy here.
Please be mindful when booking. This is a session for Black writers & writers of colour* based in Scotland.
Join a one-hour online workshop hosted by Lorraine Wilson. Through discussion and writing prompts, we’ll explore how the climate emergency challenges us to resist the forces that harm nature, how nature itself is resisting this harm, and how it can be a lens for speculative futures and a tool of liberation.
The workshop is open to all Black writers and writers of colour in Scotland, the UK, and Ireland. All experience levels welcome, including those trying out creative writing for the first time!
For participants on low incomes, we have some bursaries for data (£8) and caregiver/childcare (£30) for online events available – please email us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com if you will need a bursary to attend, and we’ll do our best to help.
Tickets are Pay What You Can (suggested £10), bookable through Ticket Tailor. We look forward to seeing you there!
Our events are very popular and have a waitlist. If you have registered for a ticket but then are unable to attend please do let us know so we can offer it to another person on the waitlist. Thank you!
Access
Before participating in this online event, please note the following:
- The event will be live captioned by Otter.ai, the transcript and audio recording will be deleted after 4 weeks.
- Events are hosted online using Zoom (link will be sent to participants closer to the date).
- To participate you will need an internet/wi-fi connection, a desktop or mobile device to join by audio and/or video and writing materials/device.
- You may mute your mic/switch off video or take a break at any time.
- All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy.
Questions? Email scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com.
Facilitator
About Lorraine
A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She has a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of several books most recently The Last To Drown, and the upcoming We Are All Ghosts In The Forest. Winner of a BFA for her short fiction, her books have won the SoA ADCI Literary Prize, been longlisted for the BSFA, finalists for the BFA, Kavya and Saltire Awards, and twice winners of the SCKAwards. Lorraine has been stalked by wolves, caught the bubonic plague, and befriended pythons, but she now sticks to herding cats.