Tue, 20 Jun
|Zoom Videoconference - RSVP to get link.
Autistic Pride 2023 - Neurodivergent Writers' Group | Free
Join queer autistic author Jorik Mol for this exciting pilot event. Prompted writing but also to explore the possibilities for LGBTQ+ neurodivergent writers' including the possible formation of a Writers Group. Open to neurodivergent writers at all levels including beginner. RSVP to reserve place.
Time & Location
20 Jun 2023, 19:00 – 21:30 BST
Zoom Videoconference - RSVP to get link.
About the Event
About the Event
PLEASE NOTE this event is specifically for neurodivergent-identified queer authors. No diagnosis necessary, but please don’t join if you are simply ‘interested’ or if ‘my nephew is autistic.’
Introductions, checking in, creation of a space and validating space.
Exploring the potential for a queer ND Writers Group.
Writing Prompt: Autistic Joy. Writing for 30 mins on what gives you joy as a queer autistic person
Discussion : existing representation of our community in fiction, memoir and poetry and what we think we can bring to that.
Breakout rooms will always be accessible for check-ins and taking a breather.
POTENTIAL OUTCOMES: 1. Making a bid for Arts Council funding, with the feedback from the group. 2. Creating a validating space for neurodivergent queer authors. 3. Underline the interconnectivity between queerness and neurodivergence and seek to find platforms to celebrate our voices.
About Jorik Mol
Jorik Mol (he/him) is an queer autistic author, currently writing his first non-fiction book for Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Out in 2024, Feeling Fast and Slow is about autism, empathy and the limits of what non-autistic people believe we are. In 2018, Jorik’s novel Teeming was selected for Penguin’s ‘Write Now’-workshops, currently under resubmission to TGLA. Teeming is set in 1930s Holland, within the minds of three queer autistic young people as they learn to survive in a world yet without a name for who they are. Jorik is in high demand as an educator on neurodiversity: https://www.jorikmol.com
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