Queerscape Writers Lab | £8/£4

About this Session

In this session, facilitated by Steve and Sam we will:

Discuss Chapter 1 of in a Queer Time and Place by Halberstom - link to a google doc will be provided.

Undertake a Prompted Writing session - on a theme from psychogeography Look at our Reading Resource List and Links to Our Writing list - link to a google doc will be provided.

Discuss potential themes for the next session. 

About the Lab Series

Sam and Steve re-encountered eachother in Out on the Page and have been meeting and talking psychogeograhy for a couple of years now. This idea has come from there. Sam says,

 'I imagine us meeting once a month, developing our knowledge and understanding of this niche area of writing; perhaps  doing some group reading (like a bookclub), bringing any WIP writing to the Lab for discussion, developing collaborations, just seeing where it takes us.'

About Steve Benson and Sam Jenks

Steve Benson, gay man, he/him; psychogeography , lgbtstudies/Queer Theory, desuetudinousness; using hybrid genres and weave of text and image. He runs three LGBT+ groups across Merseyside and his work can be found in anthologies like Made Up: An anthology of New LGBTQ+ writing from Liverpool and Merseyside; also the Out on the Page chapbook Queer Writing for a Brave New World. 

You can read his blog at towardsutopia.wordpress.com

Sam Jenks is the writing name of Paul Bradley, the Artistic Director of Out on the Page. Sam (he/him) is a gay writer concerned with queering psychogeography, landscapes, and, strangers in strange places. Fiction-auto-fiction-non-fiction-mash-up. He's got two novellas on a back burner but is currently in the final design stages of co-producing a short book entitled 'Robinson in Chronostasis - a surreal psychogeographical non-romance.'

Links to his other published writing can be found at https://samjenkswriter.carrd.co

Image Credit

Naked City psychogeographical 'map' by Guy Debord