Explore and challenge stories of the British Empire through creating poetry.
Category: Events
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.
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.
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.
SBWN at Push the Boat Out – 16th October 2021
An hour of Healing and Recovery through film, poetry and prose.
Decolonising Fictional Worlds: Intermediate Craft Seminar with Katalina Watt – 19th October 2021
In this interactive intermediate craft seminar, you will be invited to build an inclusive and representative world from the ground up.
Feedback Groups – September-November 2021
These are peer-led groups of 4 participants who come together online once a month to review and workshop each other’s writing.
