Writing the Menopause

Contact: cherry@arachnepress.com

Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-menopause-workshop-for-poets-and-fiction-writers-tickets-475094569647

Writing about Menopause, where it exists at all, is cliched, straight and white. We'd like to change that!
Join Arachne Press editor Cherry Potts and co editor (& Menopause expert and activist) Catherine Pestano for a lively discussion and workshop to explore writing about Menopause.
In preparation for an anthology of poems and short fiction inspired by the menopause, which will be published in October 2023, Arachne Press owner Cherry Potts and co-editor Catherine Pestano are running a writing workshop for anyone who would like to get involved.
submission call open until 31st December 2022
Our anthology call out is particularly aimed at older women (of course), and lesbians and women from the global majority, who are often left out of the discussion. Our theme is the menopause, and we are looking for stories, flash and poems that go waaay beyond the empty nest and feelings of sexual redundancy, so come along and explore.
This workshop is to support writers who might want to submit, and anyone else who is interested in writing about the subject.
We will provide playful writing prompts, fun exercises, examples and discussion including some useful facts about the menopause, opportunities to share your work; you provide the imagination.
free tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-menopause-workshop-for-poets-and-fiction-writers-tickets-475094569647

Entry: free

Time: 5:30pm