Lez Write x Pride & Pen Workshops: Autofiction with Durre Shahwar.

Date: 25th November 2025 | Time: 18:30

That’s right! Lez Write and Pride & Pen have joined forces to bring us some fantastic writing workshops. This week, we’re joined by Durre Shahwar to dive into Autofiction!

Durre Shahwar is a writer and the Editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape featuring women of colour (forthcoming February 2024 with 404 Ink). She is currently working on her debut narrative non-fiction book, a sample of which was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize 2022. Durre is repped by Nelle Andrew at Rachel Mills Literary Agency.

Durre’s work overlaps the boundaries between non-fiction, essay, autofiction, short story, and has been published widely, most prominently: Wasafiri, Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class (Dead Ink Books), We Shall Fight Until We Win (404 Ink), Welsh (Plural) (Repeater Books), Homes for Heroes 100: Council Estate Memories (Bristol Festival of Ideas), Artes Mundi, Visual Verse. Her short play ‘On My Terms’ was performed at Edinburgh Fringe.

This event is supported by Literature Wales' Inspiring Communities Fund.

Further Information

Alcohol will be served at this event. This is a seated event.

Accessibility Information

This event is situated inside The Queer Emporium. There are two entrances to the shop: the front entrance includes a step, whilst our side entrance is level with the ground. There is also a disabled toilet on site.

The Queer Emporium is situated at the lower half of St. Mary's Street. There is a taxi rank diagonally across from the space and Uber cars are able to collect people from the Marriott Hotel, which is approximately 0.4 miles away. Here, many buses also stop to collect passengers and allow them to alight. Parking is available in St. David's Hall 2 and the John Lewis Car Park, both of which are approximately 0.2 miles from The Queer Emporium.

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