Welcome to Sapphic Writers crowdfunding page!

Who are we?

Sapphic Writers is a small writing organisation that provides avenues of support, connection, and inspiration within the global sapphic writing community by offering workshops, publication and performance opportunities, and news and resources aimed at this underserved community of writers.

With a team of exclusively sapphics, we work with sapphics only - which encompasses lesbians, bisexual, pansexual and queer women and non binary people who experience attraction towards people with similar identities - this includes asexual people. You can read more about different definitions of ‘sapphic’ in this blog post (https://alesbianandherlaptop.com/2021/03/11/what-does-sapphic-mean/), written by one of our wonderful core team members. We are fully inclusive and supportive of trans women and non binary people, and happily welcome them into our work.

Our workshops, events and community include anyone: from people who have never written before but want to try, to people who have books published already. You can never be too ‘new’ to writing in order to join us, in fact we love to support people who are trying out writing for the very first time! So come along and join us for the ride.

What are we crowdfunding for?

After an incredible first (and a bit) year, we would LOVE to take it one step further and host a writing festival for our community to enjoy! We have a brilliant gameplan in place, with a weekend of workshops and panel discussions, parties and meetups, and even a film screening! We would also like to host a bit of a ‘zine festival’, and invite other communities that we have worked with over the last year to advertise themselves and their work on our website.

Why crowdfunding?

We are a volunteer-led organisation with no paid staff, but we’d like to be able to pay our workshop leaders, panelists and performers. The arts are critically under-funded, and it feels important to us to be able to provide opportunities for this incredible community. The money will be 100% going towards these costs.

The festival itself will be on a sliding scale, with attendees able to donate on the weekend if they choose - however, we will ALWAYS offer unlimited free tickets, and paying does not include any VIP specials. Our work will always be available to everyone, no matter what. Therefore, we can’t rely on ticket fees from the festival itself, which is why we have decided to crowdfund.

How can I get involved?

Do you have a workshop idea that you’d like to deliver at our festival? Think you’d be an interesting panelist? Want to perform at our party? Email hello@sapphicwriters.org to stay in touch and keep up to date with announcements!

Website: http://sapphicwriters.org/