About the course:

Food is more than just sustenance – it’s one way we build community; coming together and sharing parts of ourselves. From ancient times telling stories over meat on an open fire through to the modern sensibilities of fine dining and small plates; food is how we celebrate, how we mourn, how we socialise, and how we survive.

This course will be about exploring the associations we have with food – the good, the bad, and the weird. A home cooked family dinner, your favourite meal with a friend you miss, the last scraps left in the fridge three days before payday. How we tie our thoughts, feelings and sensations so deeply to these moments and meals.

I’ll share my favourite poems about food, then together we’ll write our own versions, inspired by images, lines, fragments and foodstuffs.

About the tutor: 

Jem Henderson is the Creative Future 2024 Leeds Writer In Residence. Jem is a genderqueer poet from Leeds, and a 2021 Creative Future Writers’ Award winner. Their work focuses on the body, motherhood, food, queerness and on triumph over trauma, playing with both traditional forms and experimental poetry. an othered mother, their first pamphlet, is out with Nine Pens Press. Their first collaborative project Genderfux came out in 2022 with Nine Pens Press, and a new collaborative collection with Chris Campbell, small plates, is out now with Broken Sleep Books. 

Who is it for? 

This course is for writers who are neurodivergent.

Please note, you do not need to have had an ‘official’ diagnosis to be a part of this course, just that you identify as part of the neurodivergent umbrella

Dates & Time: 

Tuesdays;

22nd and 29th of October,  5th and 12th of November 2024. 

6 pm – 8 pm. 

This course takes place online via Zoom. Links will be sent seven days prior to the first session, and again the day of the first session. 

Access: 

You can see our full access commitments here. Please add any additional requirements when booking. 

Cost: 

£40 / £20 concessions 

In order to make our resources stretch further, we have to subsidise some workshops with nominal fees well below most online courses. The more who book at full price, the more we’ll be able to offer. 

Concessionary places are available for those on benefits, pensioners, unemployed/underemployed or on low wages. We do not ask for proof that you qualify.  

If concessionary spaces aren’t displayed below, they are fully booked. We can add you to the waiting list if you e-mail [email protected]. 

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