Not About the Parakeets: Creative Writing for 9 – 11 years

DIGITAL ONLY Wednesday 6 October and Wednesday 13 October, 16:30-17:30 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE/£2/£5/£10 (Pay What You Can) With Victoria Adukwei-Bulley. A two part creative writing workshop for 9 – 11 year olds to explore their poetic voice! Join…

MANORISM: Creative Writing for 16 – 18 years

DIGITAL ONLY Thursday 7 October and Thursday 14 October, 16:30-17:30 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE/£2/£5/£10 (Pay What You Can) With Yomi Sode. A two part creative writing workshop for 16 – 18 year olds to explore their poetic voice! Join…

Recurring Dream: Creative Writing for 12 – 15 years

**CANCELLED** DIGITAL ONLY Saturday 9 October and Saturday 16 October, 11:00-12:00 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE/£2/£5/£10 (Pay What You Can) With Amina Jama. A two part creative writing workshop for 12 – 15 year olds to explore their poetic voice!…

Africa Writes x Arvon at Home present Writing for Middle Grade Children

DIGITAL ONLY Monday 11 October, 11:00-13:00 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE With Jasmine Richards. Discover key tips and industry insight in writing for middle grade children. Drawing on over fifteen years in the children’s publishing industry, and an author of…

Unlocking The Imagination

DIGITAL ONLY Friday 15 October 2021 Time: 14:00 – 17:00 (BST) / 13:00 – 16:00 (GMT) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE (Successful applicants only) Harness the power of your imagination in this workshop dedicated to sci-fi, magic realism and fantasy writers…

Happy Here

DIGITAL ONLY Friday 15 October, 18:00-19:00 (BST) Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE/£2/£5/£10 (Pay What You Can) With Patrice Lawrence, Dorcas Magbadelo and Leah Boleto. Listen to stories of family, friendship, laughter, magic and peril from Happy Here. Come and listen to…

African Muslim Women Writing Back

DIGITAL ONLY Saturday 16 October, 13:00 – 14:15 BST Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE/ £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Salma El Wardany, Hauwa Ojeifo, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai & Aisha Salaudeen.   Writers from Nigeria and the UK…

Radical Activism in Africa

DIGITAL ONLY Monday 18 October, 17:30 – 18:45 BST / 19:30 – 20:45 (EAT) Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE / £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Stella Nyanzi, Ayo Sogunro, Leigh-Ann Naidoo and James Wan.   African Argument’s…

Writing as Radical Activism

DIGITAL ONLY Tuesday 19 October 2021 Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE / £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Sekai Makoni. Channel your activism into essay writing. Essay writing can be a deeply…

Of Heart & Home: Safe Houses for Queer Africans

DIGITAL ONLY Tuesday 19 October, 17:30 – 18:45 BST Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE / £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Annette Nyabundi, Chiké Frankie Edozien and others. A conversation on community activism and loving affirmation of self…