This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to all Squad members with a focus on scriptwriters, there are other […]
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to all Squad members with a focus on prose writers, there are […]
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to all Squad members with a focus on poets, there are other […]
Responding to the queer canon through reflection, discussion and poetry writing prompts. Led by Louise Essex. Open to all Squads for female identifying poets, 8 places. Please only sign up below if you can make all three workshops. They will take place on Zoom, you will be sent a link on the morning of each […]
The Spoken Word Salon is an informal, virtual open-mic night, with the opportunity to meet other Squad writers and practise reading / performing your work - of any form and genre - in a supportive space, with the option of feedback. The writing does not need to be a final product or learnt by heart, […]
Concept The idea began from a conversation with Steve about doing something digital and collaborative during the lockdown that is open to the entire squad. I then began to think about how we, as a group of writers dispersed across the planet, could make a collective creative response to our very different, yet very similar […]
Responding to the queer canon through reflection, discussion and poetry writing prompts. Led by Louise Essex. Workshop 2 Writing in Response to the Queer Canon cont. - Queer 19th Century poets (Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman) - Queer Modernism (Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg) - rewriting queer symbols
Responding to the queer canon through reflection, discussion and poetry writing prompts led by Louise Essex. Workshop 3 Queer Narratives/ Queer Silence - comparing openly queer poetry with silenced queer poets - exploring queer silence and what it means today - ‘what makes a poem queer?’ - ‘do we want to “queer” our poems purposefully? […]
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Join Squad grad Lauren Vevers for a relaxing evening of zine making in your own home. You'll be sent a simple list of materials to gather, be invited to do a bit of writing, we will have a quick overview of zines, instructions on how to make a simple zine format, then time to make […]
This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to all Squad members with a focus on scriptwriters, there are other […]