About the course
How can we write as protest? Can we separate our activism from our writing? How can we achieve change through our creative writing? How can we protect ourselves and our lived experience whilst campaigning through our writing?
Join award winning writer, poet and disability activist Bethany Handley for four online writing workshops where you’ll explore creative non-fiction as activism.
You’ll explore what creative non-fiction is, how to start writing creative non-fiction, and how to turn your experiences into activism. Bethany will share examples of activist creative writing, exercises and tips for protecting yourself when writing about lived experience.
About the tutor
Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist. She campaigns for Disabled people’s rights and for better access to nature for all, especially for Disabled people. Her work has been published by POETRY, Poetry Wales and Country Living, and featured by the Poetry Foundation, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Wales, amongst others. Bethany was one of the writers on Literature Wales’ Representing Wales 2023-4 and she was awarded Creative Future’s 2023 Gold Prize for Creative Non-Fiction.
Bethany is an Ambassador for Country Living’s Access for All campaign, Ramblers Cymru and Wales Coast Path. She is co-editing the first bilingual anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled writers which will be published by Lucent Dreaming in January 2025 and her debut poetry pamphlet will be published by Seren in February 2025. She is currently working on her debut non-fiction book on access to nature.
Who is it for?
All underrepresented writers—those who face barriers to opportunities due to mental health issues, physical health/disability, sensory impairment, learning disabilities, neurodivergencce, substance misuse, survivors, working class backgrounds, and those from the LGBTQIA+ community, Black, Asian, traveler, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds.
Online course
This course takes place online via Zoom. Links will be sent seven days prior to the first session, and again the day of the first session.
Access:
You can see our full access commitments here. Please add any additional requirements when booking.
Cost:
£40 / £20 concessions
In order to make our resources stretch further, we have to subsidise some workshops with nominal fees well below most online courses. The more who book at full price, the more we’ll be able to offer.
Concessionary places are available for those on benefits, pensioners, unemployed/underemployed or on low wages. We do not ask for proof that you qualify.
If concessionary spaces aren’t displayed below, they are fully booked. We can add you to the waiting list if you e-mail info@creativefuture.org.uk.
