Online BPOC Writers’ Group with Jackie Mendoza

What to expect?

Sessions will be held monthly, from October to December/January, facilitated by Jackie Mendoza, and are open to anyone who would like to talk through specific issues they’re coming across in their prose writing. After the sessions, there will be a chance to share samples of your work for feedback from the group.

During these sessions, you will learn techniques for providing constructive feedback to your peers, as well as the protocols for running a supportive writers’ group with peers, including:

• How to give constructive feedback (written and verbal)
• How to listen to others’ feedback on your writing in progress without getting upset or taking it personally
• How to turn up each month to the group as part of your commitment to your practice and solidarity with your peers.
• General protocols about how to manage meetings and sharing tasks such as nominating a chair for each session to help with chasing people for work to be read, setting an order & helping keep time, etc.

Each person will have the opportunity to read out their work during at least one session and have their work discussed by peers, as well as provide feedback on others’ writing.

Session dates:

Your ticket will give you access to all three session. The first session will be on Wednesday 15 of October from 6pm to 8pm.

Each session is limited to eight-10 people, and the subsequent dates and times will be scheduled to accommodate the availability of the participants and the group facilitator. After the three sessions, if the group decides to self-facilitate future meetings, we can provide the group with access to WOL’s Pro Zoom account at no charge. The group will be responsible for its self-management.

Location & Access:

This workshop takes place online, on Zoom. Once you purchase a ticket, you will be emailed the zoom link and joining instructions. If you have any access requirements please let us know.

This group is only open for BPOC folks.

*BPOC stands for ‘Black people, People of Colour’ and is a self-identifying term. While we use the term BPOC, we acknowledge the limitations of this terminology. At the core of our network is the aim to address and overcome systemic barriers that our members face directly or indirectly based on their ethnic or national identities, race or perceived racial identities, or the colour of their skin as per the Equality Act of 2010. This includes people who identify as Black, brown, people of colour, Global Majority, mixed-race, multiple heritage and/or are from the Global South, and/or are East and South-East Asian, West Asian, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and diasporas.

Tickets:

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For further information or questions, please email info@writingourlegacy.org.uk.

Please note: If you want to take part but the first session is over and ticket sales have ended, please contact us at info@writingourlgacy.org.uk.

About Jackie Mendoza

Jackie Mendoza has always loved writing – from the hand-made ‘books’ she created as a child, to the plays she wrote at university and the self-help book she self-published when working as an NLP coach. After retiring, she finally wrote the novel she’d been wanting to write for years, which was shortlisted for Peters Fraser & Dunlop’s Queer Fiction Prize in 2023. The same year, she won the first Underrepresented Writers’ Bursary for Goldsboro Writing Academy’s Advanced Writing Programme.

Jackie was born in Italy to Filipino parents and grew up in Hong Kong, Mexico and Spain before settling in the UK. Her writing often reflects themes of identity and belonging, and she particularly enjoys writing fantasy because of the scope it gives her to comment on current social issues through the veil of other worlds and power structures. Jackie is an NLP Master Practitioner with Certificates in Applied Neuroscience and Transpersonal Counselling. She weaves these elements with Shamanic practices and her writing experience into the workshops she facilitates.

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