Join the STW Society in London on 29th-30th May for a conference celebrating 100 years of Lolly Willowes. Keynote address by Adam Mars-Jones. Early bird tickets till 31st March. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lolly-will...
PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group who formed to stitch and swear #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Last up is my one day writing retreat on 20th September. The cost of your place covers tea, coffee, snacks and a catered lunch as well as 1-1 editorial session to go over some words.
All held in the beautifully creative House of Toad.
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My new Glasgow-based courses with @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social are online and bookable! First up is Level 2, featuring peer-feedback workshops and a Q&A with writer and editor Heather Parry of @extrateethmag.bsky.social
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When you're done checking out the thread, continue unlocking the Fund Drive issue by donating to our Kickstarter!
Coming up at $12,500 is a poem by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja. Just like what's been unlocked so far, this is one you don't want to miss!
It's About Connection: Kerry Ryan interviews Julianne Pachico, Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net, and Hanna Thomas Uose @hannamade.bsky.social
Was so lovely to speak to @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social founder Kerry Ryan for this!
Barrington Stoke has scooped Dance of Resistance, the story of civil rights activist Josephine Baker, by Catherine Johnson. 👇 #BookSky
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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WLAG workshops are always brilliant!
Free Your First Draft: Workshop with Pam Williams
10 March 2025
7-9pm Online via Zoom
This warm, nurturing session is all about letting go of perfection, giving yourself permission to experiment and finding the freedom to write without judgment.
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You can get 25% off a pre-order at Waterstones! Enter PREORDER25 at checkout.
With apologies for naked self-promotion :)
retreat in folkestone with students walking along the shoreline
🤩WRITING RETREAT ALERT🤩
Folkestone Writing Retreat 7-8 June
Burlington Hotel
Folkestone
Join us for two days of creative nurturing by the sea with guidance and support from Write like a Grrrl founder and award-winning writer, Kerry Ryan
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Free Your First Draft: Workshop with Pam Williams
10 March 2025
7-9pm Online via Zoom
This warm, nurturing session is all about letting go of perfection, giving yourself permission to experiment and finding the freedom to write without judgment.
www.writelikeagrrrl.org/product/free...
Non fiction online Zoom course with Rebecca Smith winner of Lakeland book of the year 2023. Course runs Mondays starting 03/02/25 for 5 weeks.
I’m often asked about my writing (and research) for the podcast. Well I’d not be able to write Weird in the Wade if it wasn’t for the fabulous @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social who’s courses are the best. There’s still places on this fantastic online course!
Visit: www.writelikeagrrrl.org
Next Monday, my non fiction course kicks off again. It’s 5 weeks long, nearly 2 hours each week. Did I learn some extra stuff from running it last time? Yep.
Will running it now help me write my current book? Probably!
Come and join us!
We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.
This Monday! And only a few spots left! Learn from award-winning writer @rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social and learn how to those essays/memoirs/travel pieces with joy! www.writelikeagrrrl.org/product/non-...
"The value added is a feeling that you’re on the cutting edge of technology even though you’re using a product that is now actively worse."
And if you’re listening to the episode all about spooky Pegnut Wood today then here’s the blog show notes for this!
weirdinthewade.blog/2025/01/27/s...
Snap. It’s how I ended up doing the pod. I never finished any of the writing projects I started. My fabulous writing teacher Kerry from @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social challenged me to complete a project. I did it to prove to myself I could finish something and put it out there.
I’m so glad I did!
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1131333:
To those of you who are afraid, know this. Every act of creation is an act of courage. By making art, you are joining the fight. You are the resistance.
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...