About the Course:
12 Weekly Sessions (+ 3 weekly optional drop-in hours)
Co-facilitated by KR Moorhead, Marta Rose and Meg Max
Neuroqueer (v): the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously
This course is an introduction to a variety of ‘neuroqueering’ practices, geared towards artists and creatives. As a community, we will deconstruct capitalist/colonialist concepts of time, work, productivity, shame, ‘executive function’, giving and receiving feedback, and more, while simultaneously constructing new systems, languages, narratives, and ways of being/creating that subvert, defy, disrupt, and liberate us from neuronormativity and heteronormativity.
Sessions will feature a mix of facilitator presentation, practical and reflective writing & art-making invitations, and opportunities for group discussion. No attendees will ever be pressured to speak or share.
We offer a maximum of 100 places per intake - but are aware this is a large group. Each weekly session will be presented to the full group, but attendees will be placed in much smaller groups for discussions. Additionally, each facilitator will offer an extra one hour drop-in session per week, which will be centred around small group processing and reflection on the week's topic. Attendees are also encouraged to join the NQ Discord for connecting, communicating and creating in community.
Session topics are drawn from the facilitators' (evershifting) personal and professional interests and will vary from intake to intake. See links to intake pages below for specific session details.
Sessions we have run in the past include: Introduction to Neuroqueering, Creating in Spiral Time, Consent and Relationship to Creative Work, Telling Your Truth, Design Thinking.
Meet the Facilitators:
KR Moorhead (they/them) is an AuDHD, gender non-compliant educator, and author of The First Law of Motion (2009). From 2009-2023 they taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia where they earned an MA in Creative Writing: Prose Fiction in 2007. KR also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education Practice and Research, both from UEA.
Since choosing to pursue freelance mentoring and facilitating, KR has launched FLUX: Trans* Writers Circle, as well as a Crash Course in Writing While Neurodivergent. They have facilitated for Writers in Bloom, Beyond Form Creative Writing, Devotion Workshop, Norwich School of Creative Writing, and Oxbridge Academic Courses. They currently teach a number of courses for City Lit, and on the Creative Writing MA at The University of Hull.
Originally from Philadelphia, KR now lives in Norwich, UK with their partner and three cats.
Marta Rose is a queer AuDHD writer and artist. Her work offers critical insights and healing metaphors for reframing the ways we understand neurodivergence. She founded and directs Divergent Design Studios, an online community offering body doubling, workshops, and peer support for neurodivergent creatives. She writes a weekly(ish) substack newsletter called The Spiral Lab, and has published several ebooks, including Neuroemergent Time: Making Time Make Sense for ADHD and Autistic People and Getting Started is the Hardest Part. Her work has been cited by Dr. Devon Price in Unmasking Autism, by Rebecca Schiller in A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, and by Jesse Meadows in the Sluggish newsletter, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She has two grown neurodivergent children and lives in Philadelphia, on the land of the Lenni Lenape people, with her partner.
Meg Max is a queer, neurodivergent, mentally ill writer, artist and mother. She’s way more fun than that first sentence makes her sound. Her fiction has been published online and in print throughout North America, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has a certificate in therapeutic arts from the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy, and alongside founding Writers in Bloom, has facilitated with various schools, organizations and artists through Canada, the UK and the US. For a good time, Meg takes long walks where she gathers treasures to make art out of found or recycled materials. Meg lives on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people, with her husband, kiddo, two dogs and three vacuums.
Ticket Pricing & Info
Tickets are available at one low price point to make the course accessible to the most people. Discounted Early Bird Tickets will be available for one week. Monthly payment plans are available for both Early Bird and General Admission Tickets. To be the first to hear when Early Bird Tickets go on sale, and to get updates in session descriptions, make sure you Register Your Interest.
General Admission Tickets: £199 (or pay in 4, 5, or 6 monthly installments)
Attendees have the option of booking a 1:1 mentoring session with the facilitators, to take place after the structured sessions end. This includes a 60-minute tutorial to discuss your creative process, practice and/or projects.
Mentoring Tickets: £50
*mentoring tickets must be paid for in full
Refunds and Cancellations:
Ticket refunds and payment plan cancellations can be made up to 7 days before the start of the course. After this, no refunds or cancellations can be made. If you have questions or concerns about this, please contact krmoorhead.lit@gmail.com before booking.
We reserve the right to cancel the course if we do not meet a minimum number of registrants. In this instance, ticket holders will be refunded the cost of their ticket minus any payment provider fees.
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FAQs
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Who is this course for?
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Anyone who writes or makes art (or would like to). No previous knowledge or experience required.
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Do I need to identify as Neurodivergent or Queer in order to join?
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Nope! “One can neuroqueer, and one can be neuroqueer. A neuroqueer individual is any individual whose identity, selfhood, gender performance, and/or neurocognitive style have in some way been shaped by their engagement in practices of neuroqueering, regardless of what gender, sexual orientation, or style of neurocognitive functioning they may have been born with.” (Walker, N.)
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How big is the group?
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We offer a maximum of 100 places - but are aware this is a large group. Each weekly session will be presented to the full group, but attendees will be placed in much smaller groups for discussions. Additionally, each facilitator will offer an extra one hour drop-in session per week, which will be centred around small group processing and reflection on the week's topic. Attendees are also encouraged to join the NQ Discord for connecting, communicating and creating in community.
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Will I be expected to 'produce' anything?
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Although creative, reflective, and generative invitations will be shared, nothing is mandatory or expected and no one will ever be 'called on' or shamed for not engaging with a particular element of the session.
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Will I be expected to share my creative work?
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Although there will be opportunities to share work, this is not expected or required, or even necessarily encouraged except in specific spaces.
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Will I be expected to be on camera or speak on the mic?
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Members are free to engage on camera/mic or 'lurk' off camera as they feel, in any given session. No one will ever be put on the spot or asked to speak or engage unless they have volunteered.
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What is included in the ticket price?
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Access to twelve live, structured sessions via Zoom, which will consist of discussions, presentations, guided reflection, writing invitations, and art-making.
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Access to three, weekly, optional drop-in hours, hosted individually by each facilitator. These sessions serve as a small group space in which to process, reflect, and question that week's topic. May also include creative invitations.
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Access to all session recordings, invitations, & slides, as well as relevant further reading materials, throughout the course and in perpetuity.
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Access to a Google Classroom space where all materials will be hosted and group members are able to interact with each other and the facilitators, throughout the course and in perpetuity.
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Access to the Neuroqueerdos Discord server - an active community space made up of attendees of previous NQYCP intakes.
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Free and continuous access to all of KR's Writing Sprint sessions (Mondays 5-6pm & Thursdays 10-11am GMT) from the start of the course.
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1:1 feedback and discussion of your creative practice, process or projects is not included in the ticket price, but can be booked as an add-on.
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