Short Course with Thomas Glave:

Writing through Covid-19: What is Your Story? How Will You Tell It?

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an effect on us all, and we all have stories to share of our experiences within it. These are stories that only we can tell, in our own words. Stories more important than ever in these difficult times. Stories that can inspire and help others as well as ourselves.

This series of writing workshops over three weeks will provide everyone participating with the opportunity to share their stories in the workshops’ intimate, safe, respectful community. The workshop leader and other participants will respond to each writer’s work with helpful suggestions. The workshop leader will also provide each participant with personalised prompts to help you start writing.

This Wasafiri workshop offers a space for you to share your stories and put the experience of the pandemic into words.

Writing through Covid-19 is a short, three-week, writing course which will take place over three consecutive weeks in March and April.

24 March, 7 pm GMT (2 hours)

31 March, 7 pm GMT (2 hours)

7 April, 7 pm GMT (2 hours)

Prices: £50 full; £30 concessions; £20 subsidised.

Concessions: Tickets at a discounted rate are available for attendees who are disabled, on Universal Credit or earning below a living wage, over 65, or full time students

Subsidised places: We offer a limited number of subsidised workshop/course places – first-come, first-served – at the rates quoted above. To apply for a subsidised place please email a 200-word explanation of your need for a subsidised workshop/course place to wasafiri@qmul.ac.uk

Meet the Tutor: Thomas Glave is the author of four books, including Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer’s Wife.  His work has received two Lambda Literary Awards and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nomination. His most recent book is Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh. He is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, and an Associate Editor of Wasafiri.