The Grey Area Writing Group and Book Club

This monthly event for trans and queer book lovers includes a guided writing session and book club discussion.

Meet and share work with like-minded people at The Grey Area. Each month, the group meets for a guided writing session, followed by a book club. You can join one or both sessions – and don't be put off coming if you didn't finish the book, you can still join in the discussion or listen to others chat about it.  

The guided writing session runs from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Suitable for all levels of experience, you'll be given prompts and can work on an existing project, or something new.  

There's then a short break before an informal, welcoming discussion about that month's book, finishing at 8.30pm. Alternating between fiction and non-fiction, past titles have included Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury and On Freedom by Maggie Nelson. 

Sessions are run by Grey Marlow, the founder of Bender Zine, a literary zine interested in blending genres of writing, and are part of our ongoing Queering the Whitworth project. Please contact greyareabooks@gmail.com for more information. 

Upcoming dates

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
'An astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly', shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2024 

Thursday 28 August
6.30pm-8.30pm 
From £2 book now

More upcoming dates:    
Thursday 25th September  
Thursday 23rd October  
Thursday 27th November  
Thursday 18th December      


Image: Courtesy of The Grey Area