How is our writing constrained by calcified and normative forms, fears and fantasies about what writing should be and where it should go? Who and what are tied down and twisted by human-only imaginaries, the ‘marriage plot,’ the imperative of prescribed genres, normative happy endings, boring kinds of climax, delusions of linear time, single stories, coherent characters, and the terror of loose ends? How can we write in ways that are more faithful to our already abundant, complex but often invisible and excluded relational ecologies?

In ‘Writing with Non-monogamy,’ we’ll write through more capacious forms of relationality than are afforded to us by grammars of compulsory monogamy. We’re interested in queer kinds of commitment and the affordances of different forms and practices for non-monogamous writing: graphomania’s passion for proliferation; queer etymology’s intimacy with plurality, subversive/subsumed/lost/forgotten/denied/minor meanings, animism’s more-than-human, earth-and-cosmos-based, nonbinary, relational grammar and participants, and the disruptive connections of erotic forces and flows.

Who is this for?
This workshop is for writers and creatives of all persuasions at all levels of experience. You don’t need to know anything about non/monogamy to participate and this is not a how-to course. All welcome!

Session 1 – 5th June: intro to writing with non-monogamy: This week, we’ll explore how compulsory monogamy sneaks into our writing, and write through more capacious forms of relationality and queerer kinds of commitment than are afforded to us by its grammars.
Session 2 – 13th June: writing with more-than-human relations: This week we turn to writing with animism’s more-than-human, earth-and-cosmos-based, nonbinary, relational characters and grammar, and to the ecological response-abilities of non-monogamous writers.
Session 3 – 20th June: writing with queer etymologies: This week, we will play with queer etymology; expanding imagination through linguistic plurality and the portals of subversive, subsumed, lost, forgotten, denied and minor meanings.
Session 4 – 27th June: writing with erotic forces and flows: This week, we’ll deepen our practices of writing with non-monogamy by tuning in with the disrupting-connecting forces and flows of the erotic in its manifold forms.

Dates: Thursdays, 5-26th June 2025, 6-8pm (GMT
Location: Online, over Zoom
Cost: £120-£350 (sliding scale pricing structure). If these price options aren’t available to you, please contact us: info@beyondformcreativewriting.org

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