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Intermediate Craft Seminar: Decolonizing Style with Jessie Widner
February 6, 2021February 6, 2021

Intermediate Craft Seminar: Decolonizing Style with Jessie Widner

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In this seminar, we’ll explore the inner “colonization” that happens throughout our literary education. How can we work towards dismantling this and finding our own individual literary styles and voices?

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SBWN Spoken Word Night Film Premiere
February 3, 2021February 10, 2021

SBWN Spoken Word Night Film Premiere

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We’re delighted to host our first public reading of 2021! Courtney Stoddart is joined by seven poets, Nasim Rebecca Asl, Sabrina Latif, Clementine E. Burnley, Wendy Law, Kamala Santos, Bee Asha and Andrew ‘Ace’ Bamusi.

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Scottish Black Writers Group
December 23, 2020February 14, 2021

Scottish Black Writers Group

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Scottish Black Writers Group is a new, free writers group facilitated by our Co-Director Dean Atta and in association with Scottish PEN. 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.

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Writing Workshop: An ‘Empathy Test’ for Your Stories with Kritika Narula
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Writing Workshop: An ‘Empathy Test’ for Your Stories with Kritika Narula

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The workshop seeks to function as an exercise for storytellers – anyone from short story writers to screenwriters – in creating diverse characters empathetically.

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November 22, 2020November 22, 2020

Book Week Scotland 2020: A Week’s Worth of Joy

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Throughout Book Week Scotland 2020, we will be sharing daily writing prompts curated by writer and creative, Raheema Sayed. Join us each day from Nov 16-22, 2020 on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and our website for inspirational prompts to write with joy, hope, and centre well-being.

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Metaphors for a Black Future
October 14, 2020November 3, 2020

Metaphors for a Black Future

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0 This October, during Black History Month, Scottish BAME Writers Network launch Metaphors for a Black Future, curated by Martha […]

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Writing Workshop: Pluralism within the Self with Titilayo Farukuoye
October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Writing Workshop: Pluralism within the Self with Titilayo Farukuoye

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This workshop explores the concept of pluralism within the self, with a focus on language, embodied cultures and cultural plurality.

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Workshop: Writing for Children (Middle Grade) with Maisie Chan
September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

Workshop: Writing for Children (Middle Grade) with Maisie Chan

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This workshop with author Maisie Chan explores writing for children (middle grade, 8-12 yrs) through fun writing exercises and discussions on craft.

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September 7, 2020September 7, 2020

Q&A Session: ‘Demystifying the Publishing Process’ with Nancy Adimora from HarperCollins

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We’re delighted to offer a free Q&A session on ‘Demystifying the Publishing Process’ with Nancy Adimora from HarperCollins on 17th, September 2020, 6pm. This session is for Black writers and writers of colour based in Scotland who are working on a fiction or nonfiction manuscript.

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August 11, 2020August 11, 2020

Workshop: ‘Experimental Poetry & Sound’ with Shehzar Doja

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How can we become attuned with the weight of words when composing a poem? How can memories affect the language and vocabulary of a poem? How can we construct and de-construct our thought processes during the act of writing?

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