Writing workshop: Writing Monologues That Speak to an Audience

Suzanne will guide you through creating a monologue – a story with a single voice – from the idea to the final draft. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer and whether you want to tell your story or someone else’s, bring along your ideas or be inspired by current and historic prompts.

Suzanne Elvidge’s writing crosses science and the arts, covering fact, fiction, and the blurry spaces in between. She writes fiction about lost and forgotten women’s voices based on interviews, news stories, historical events and the overheard. Her writing about healthcare, medicine and research has been published in the New Scientist, Scientific American, and Nature.

She has had poetry, monologues and short stories published in anthologies and has performed monologues on stage. Dancing in Heaven, her first solo collection of monologues due out in December 2025, is inspired by the women from all walks of life who played often unrecognised roles in the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.