Feminist Voice: A Six-Week Course for Writers on Women and/or Feminism

This course consists of six two-hour writing workshops, online, which you’ll be able to access as recordings. You can participate in the whole course, or in individual workshops.

Course programme

Workshop 1: Overcoming the Challenges of Writing About Feminism (available 16 June 2025)

Workshop 2: Fleshing Out: Writing The Body (available 23 June 2025)

Workshop 3: The BiographHer: Researching and Writing Women’s Lives (available 30 June 2025)

Workshop 4: Pivoting between the Personal and the Political (available 7 July 2025)

Workshop 5: The Survivor’s Voice: Writing After Trauma (available 14 July 2025)

Workshop 6: Mother Tongue: Forging Female-Friendly Language (available 21 July 2025)

Who is it for?

The course is designed for anyone who is involved or interested in writing about women and feminism. It is aimed primarily at non-fiction writers, but there will be exercises and discussion points that will also be relevant to fiction writers, poets, and writers for screen and stage. My focus is creative rather than prescriptive. I do not seek to teach feminist history or theory in these workshops, and the course is not geared towards any specific definition, theory or practice of feminism. The course is therefore intended for participants who already have their own interests in women’s lives and feminism, and some ideas for what they wish to write about. I will support you in bringing to light the creative issues that are most relevant to your own work, and in developing your own responses.

Course structure

The Feminist Voice course consists of six two-hour recorded online workshops. These are not live, so you have the flexibility to decide how to do the course. For example, you could access one workshop per week, and participate in the course over a six week period. Or you could store up the recordings and do all six back-to-back, as your own online writer’s retreat in your own home. Or you could do the workshops as and when they suit you.

If you sign up for the whole course now, you will receive the recordings in your inbox week-by-week. The first will arrive on Monday 16th June 2025, and the last on Monday 21st July 2025. If you sign up for the whole course at a later date, you will receive any available recordings straight away, and any others as soon as they’re made available. If you purchase individual workshops now, they’ll be sent to you on the dates below. If you purchase the workshops on or after the dates below, the recordings will be sent to you straight away.

Course fees

Whole course of 6 workshops: £150 (only £75 for annual, founding and Sisterhood subscribers to the Small Revolutions, Every Day substack)

Individual workshops: £30 each (only £15 each for annual, founding and Sisterhood subscribers to the Small Revolutions, Every Day substack)

You have the option of purchasing workshops individually at £30 each, OR purchasing the entire course (which consists of six workshops) for £150 (a saving of £30).

You don’t need to be a subscriber, either free or paid, to my Small Revolutions, Every Day Substack in order to take part in the workshops. However, I’m offering a massive 50% discount for annual, founding and Sisterhood subscribers to my Substack. (You can read more about these types of subscriptions here.) If you have one of these subscriptions, then the workshops will cost only £15 each, or £75 for the whole course. (An annual subscription to Small Revolutions, Every Day costs £80, so you save nearly the entire cost in the course discount.)

Any paid or Sisterhood subscribers to Small Revolutions, Every Day will also gain access to a chat group, where you can discuss challenges, techniques and experiences associated with writing about women and feminism with other subscribers and myself. You do have to be a paid or Sisterhood subscriber in order to access this chat.

T&Cs: Each recording is intended for ONE customer only. If you would like to do the workshops with friends, please ensure that each person has paid for their own recording. Unfortunately I cannot offer any refunds or returns on these products. Unfortunately monthly subscribers do not qualify for the 50% discount on the workshop and course fees..