Navigating her role as a botanist and educator, Kimmerer champions pursuing ‘heart-driven science’ in the rigid confines of academia.
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Intermediate Craft Seminar: Poetry Vs Colonialism with Laila Sumpton – 1st December 2021
Explore and challenge stories of the British Empire through creating poetry.
Scottish Black Writers Group – October-November 2021
Scottish Black Writers Group is a new, free writers group facilitated by our Co-Director Dean Atta and in association with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It is a monthly meetup open to writers across the UK and Ireland who are Black/from the African diaspora, including people of mixed heritage.
Lost in the Archives: Ayahs in Scotland
The legacies of imperialism are always closer to home than we think.
SBWN in Dundee: Black History Month – October 2021
Join our writers at live venues across Dundee as they share their work and celebrate Black History Month.
Arts Reviewing for Creatives of Colour with Aisha Josiah – 13th November 2021
This session aims to encourage writers with any level of experience to delve into arts criticism.
QTIPOC Writers Group – 7th October 2021
QTIPOC Writers Group is a new, free writers group for QTIPOC based in Scotland.
To the Body, to the Earth
I can find the traces of these weeks in the way I have learned to hold myself, the way I am in my body.
Metaphors for a Black Future 2021: To the body, to the earth
This year’s Metaphors for a Black Future considers how we might write through and with the body and in embodied relationship with the earth.
Settings as Characters with Lorraine Wilson – 5th October 2021
Create environments that reflect your characters’ inner journeys and immerse the reader in a fully realised world.
