Join us for a fun, joyous, family-friendly 'Wintering' creative writing workshop at Saddlescombe Farm, with hot drinks, songs and stories around the fire.

Part of the WOL @ Changing Chalk programme.

Saturday 7 December
12noon-3pm
FREE

Covert Guest Editor Akila Richards and others will run the creative writing workshop on the theme of 'Rest yourself', exploring rest as resistance and inspiration for your writing. In the final hour, we'll light an outdoor fire for baked potatoes and marshmallows, with singing and storytelling.

This workshop is a great opportunity to polish your skills and learn about our fifth issue of Covert Literary Magazine. In March and April 2025, we will invite Global majority/BPOC creatives to submit to the magazine.

More information about Covert Literary Magazine.

Refreshments will be provided.

Venue address: Saddlescombe Farm, Saddlescombe Road, West Sussex, BN45 7DE

Please let us know if you need a lift. We can help organise car pools/group taxi from Brighton train station or Hove train station.

The Learning Barn has disabled access and a disabled toilet. Cars can pull up right outside the front door. There is loose gravel on a flat surface around the perimeter of the Learning Barn, which is accessible by wheelchair.

Please let us know if you have any access needs we need to be aware of or for more information, by emailing access@writingourlegacy.org.uk or info@writingourlegacy.org.uk.

See our Access Policy for more info about how we can support.

ABOUT THE ORGANISER

The workshop is organised by Writing Our Legacy as part of our WOL@ Changing Chalk programme

Writing Our Legacy is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation 2023-26.

Akila Richards is an award winning poet, spoken word artist and fiction writer. Her work is published in Covert Magazines, Mosaic Writers, Penguin, Waterloo Press, Peepal Tree Press and on digital platforms. Her soundscapes and audio work can be listened to at Dulwich Gallery website, Wasafiri Instagram and her own Youtube channel. Her poetry pamphlet Ritual for a Mango was published by Flipped Eye in February 2024.

Akila’s artistic year-long residency at Brighton Dome in 2021 led to the development of The Rest Experience offering a range of participatory activities, events, collaborations and programmes. As a socially engaged artist her belief is that rest is a collective experience which leads us to our purpose and true self, where we are rested and relevant , connected and visionary and the impossible becomes possible, here and for futurity. Akila is a proud member of the Inscribe Group an imprint of Peepal Tree Press whose support and encouragement have also led to her first novel writing. Her poems and stories speak to our humanness, of complex lives and ultimately the deep joy of liberation. https://akilarichards.wordpress.com/

Writing Our Legacy CIC is an arts and heritage organisation that enables Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC* people to tell their story through writing and the creative arts. We were established in 2012.

We give writers and other creatives a platform and community to feel supported, nurtured and evolve their work through the creative pipeline, from start to publication. We share stories and heritage of diaspora communities and bring them to life through various art forms for audiences to learn and take part in cultural heritage. We are an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

*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.