Neurodivergent Self Acceptance Through Creative Writing & Reading

A 6-week course of workshops to facilitate self-acceptance, confidence and knowledge in your neurodivergent identity. Sundays via Zoom.
About this Event

A six week course of workshops and reflection to facilitate self-acceptance, confidence and knowledge in your neurodivergent identity, through creative writing (and reading).

Suitable for beginning or established creative writers and neurodivergent people at any stage of their journey (eg: exploring, self-identified, late diagnosed etc).

Topics covered will include:

Self-Acceptance
Sensory Differences
Masking and Unmasking
Communicating Differently
Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
Imagining New Futures

We will write our own words and look at material from neurodivergent and neuroqueer authors including: Joanne Limburg, Nick Walker, Katherine May, Melanie Yergeau, Selima Hill

The course will take place in a small (up to 16), neuro-affirming group on Zoom.

Sundays, 6.30-8pm (GMT) starting 26/01/25

Course Date & Times

Sunday 26/0`1/25, 6.30-8pm
Sunday 02/02/25, 6.30-8pm
Sunday 09/02/25, 6.30-8pm
Sunday 16/02/25, 6.30-8pm
Sunday 23/02/25, 6.30-8pm
Sunday 02/03/25, 6.30-8pm

(Two subsidised places available, please ask via email [email protected]).

Reading material and details of the writing exercises will be provided in advance of each session (some people may prefer to look at material in advance, whilst others will prefer to encounter it for the first time in the session. Either is fine!).

Additional individual mentoring sessions available where we will use your creative writing and reading responses as a springboard to reflect on your neurodivergent journey.

The sessions will be facilitated by (Dr) Kate Fox.

Poet and regular broadcaster on Radio 4. Author of “On Sycamore Gap” (Harper North), “Bigger on the Inside (Smokestack Books) and The Oscillations (Nine Arches Press) and “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: Amazing Stories of Northern Women” (Harper North). Co Editor of the “Neurodiverse” anthology (Flapjack Press).

Poet in Residence for Glastonbury Festival, the Great North Run, Tour de Yorkshire and Radio 4’s Saturday Live. Forward Poetry Prizes judge, 2023.

PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Leeds.

Steering group member for the Playing A/Part project at the University of Kent looking at Autistic girls and women and performance. Speaker/presenter at conferences including the National Autistic Society, Scottish Autism, Participatory Autism Research, Autangel, Autscape and AMASE, Autism and the Arts Festival, Ruskin Mill Neurodiversity Conference.

Co-host of the “Neurotypicals Don’t Juggle Chainsaws Podcast”. Creator of the “Bigger on the Inside” spoken word touring show about Doctor Who and neurodiversity.