Join us at the Common Press on Saturday 11th November from 2 pm - 4 pm for the first Writing Queer Stories Workshop with Aude Konan. PAY WHAT YOU CAN TO ATTEND
Are you a writer?
Or would you like to become one?
Do you want to learn how to center yourself and write, especially queer stories?
Looking for community and creativity?
Join us for a workshop to learn how to write as a form of self-care. No writing experience is necessary and all levels of experience and backgrounds are welcome.
About Aude
Aude Konan wrote My little sister (Ma petite soeur), her first novel, at only 12 years old. It got published by the publishing company Dagan. She followed up by winning numerous children’s writing competitions. As a playwright, she is an alumni of Talawa TYPT 15, Soho Writers Group and the Royal Court’s Introduction to Playwriting. Aude is an award-winning writer, and writes scripts as well as articles for British, French and American magazines such as Complex UK, Style Caster, Gal-Dem, Okay Africa, and The Guardian. She likes to write in different languages for no reason.
She also leads creative communications workshops in the UK and Europe for organizations such as Expedia, UK Black Pride, Amnesty International , etc. Her newest book has just been released, a bilingual short stories collection called Solitudes.
As a filmmaker, her short film Rabbits was screened at the Helsinki Illumenation Film Festival in 2015. Her newest short film, Pearls, a coming of age movie about, has recently been completed following a crowdfunding campaign. It was selected at the Diaspora festival of Black and Independent film 2023 and the Chicago Indie film awards 2023.