Scottish Writers' Centre Our Own Voices: Writing Workshop CANCELLED

Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The Scottish Writers’ Centre in partnership with ‘Our Own Voices’ is a free writing and performance project that includes a series of workshops, performance events, and a publication - all designed to showcase original narratives by marginalised people living in Glasgow. Professional writers and dramaturges will mentor participants through developing, refining, and rehearsing their work, which will be presented at a series of community events in Glasgow. The project will feature the writing of both established writers and performers as introduction and bridge to the products of participants.

The workshops encourage creativity of expression and will generate new writings and performances from those in groups who have been labelled as “Other”, including: members of the LGBTQ community, members of the burlesque and drag communities, people stigmatised by association with chronic and terminal illnesses (e.g. HIV/AIDS), neurodiverse and differently abled individuals, and members of racial and/or ethnic groups with minority narratives.

Elaine Gallagher is a writer, screenwriter and poet; her interest is in speculative and weird fiction, and in the way that we each inhabit the same space differently depending on who we are. She writes about queer and transgender identities and is transgender. She is studying creative writing at Glasgow university; her film, High Heels Aren’t Compulsory, directed by Annabel Cooper and starring Jo Clifford, was shortlisted for the Iris Prize and is now available on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/216998787

Victoria Shropshire is an ex-pat Glaswegian refugee, Victoria is completing a PhD in which her critical research and creative writing focus on the impact of inherited narratives on identity (re)construction, especially where queer and illness narratives intermingle. Victoria is currently completing her debut novel, a fictionalised memoir in which a derelict debutante struggling with chronic illness is rescued by Dobermans and drag queens.