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Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression

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@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:01 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

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Explore Jessica Comola's work:
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#WritingTheDawn #GatherAndWrite #Apophrenia #NeuroAffirming #AntiRacist #LGBTQIAAffirming #AntiOppressive #BodyDoubling #NatureScienceWriting #Coorie

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:01 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Another great Gather and Write body doubling session today, exploring apophenia.

Join us every
Tues10-11.30am UK time
Thurs 4-5.20pm UK time
Free Online Zoom, small group.

Reserve your space
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@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:01 PM

Read the blog:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Explore Jessica Comola's work:
www.jessicacomola.com

#WritingTheDawn #GatherAndWrite #Apophrenia #NeuroAffirming #AntiRacist #LGBTQIAAffirming #AntiOppressive #BodyDoubling #NatureScienceWriting #Coorie

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:01 PM

Another great Gather and Write body doubling session today, exploring apophenia.

Join us every
Tues10-11.30am UK time
Thurs 4-5.20pm UK time
Free Online Zoom, small group.

Reserve your space
www.writingthedawn.com/workshops

Read the blog here:

substack.com/home/post/p-...

@emilymedwards.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:04 AMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Good morning,
Tuesday here has brought in mist, covering our world in a sheer white gown. It is both ethereal and eerie at the same time.
October weather.
Have a good day.

#WritingCommunity #tuesdaythoughts #goodday #goodmorning

@jenratcliffe.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:17 AMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

A mini writing exercise for you to follow along with today, can be done from anywhere

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#NatureWriting #DailyNature #Writing #Workshop #Video

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 4:40 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Let books be.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar?

Find ways to get involved and spread the word: https://bit.ly/4yvixbB.

LET BOOKS BE. Various line drawings related to libraries and books, including a hand holding a sign made of an open book that reads "Freed for ALL to Read," a tote bag that reads "Totes Resist" carrying a book, a full book cart with the head and tale of a horse with text that reads "A Wild Ride," and a closeup of two feet standing on a stack of books that say "A Soap Box" on their spines. Text at bottom reads "Protect the freedom to read. Banned Books Week, October 4-10, 2026." American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
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@tenseven.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:37 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Cool

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:32 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Gather & Write with @autisticrealms.bsky.social
Tue 6 Oct, 10 to 11.30am UK
Thu 8 Oct, 4 to 5.30pm UK
Online via Zoom, open to all globally

This week we're exploring apophenia, our human tendency to find meaning in patterns
Reserve your space (free or by donation)
www.writingthedawn.com/workshops

Word of the Week graphic for Writing the Dawn, set against a close-up photograph of gnarled, knotted tree bark in soft greys, browns and ochres, its twists and hollows hinting at hidden shapes. At the top, a cream banner reads "Apophenia" in large slate-grey letters. Below it, a rounded cream card framed by white quotation marks reads: "Apophenia. /æpəˈfiːniə/, ap-oh-FEE-nee-uh, noun. The tendency to perceive meaningful connections or patterns between things that are unrelated or random. From the German Apophänie, coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958, probably from the Greek apophaínein, to reveal, from phaínein, to make visible. Its cousin, pareidolia, is the face in the bark, the creature in the cloud, the Man in the Moon." Beneath the card is the white Writing the Dawn logo, a crescent moon and star within a sunburst, with the words "Writing the Dawn, Workshops & Coaching". At the bottom, small text reads "Sources: Merriam-Webster: Apophenia".
@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:32 PM

#WritingTheDawn #GatherAndWrite #Apophenia #NeuroAffirming #AntiRacist #LGBTQIAAffirming #AntiOppressive #BodyDoubling #NatureScienceWriting #Coorie

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:32 PM

Gather & Write with @autisticrealms.bsky.social
Tue 6 Oct, 10 to 11.30am UK
Thu 8 Oct, 4 to 5.30pm UK
Online via Zoom, open to all globally

This week we're exploring apophenia, our human tendency to find meaning in patterns
Reserve your space (free or by donation)
www.writingthedawn.com/workshops

Word of the Week graphic for Writing the Dawn, set against a close-up photograph of gnarled, knotted tree bark in soft greys, browns and ochres, its twists and hollows hinting at hidden shapes. At the top, a cream banner reads "Apophenia" in large slate-grey letters. Below it, a rounded cream card framed by white quotation marks reads: "Apophenia. /æpəˈfiːniə/, ap-oh-FEE-nee-uh, noun. The tendency to perceive meaningful connections or patterns between things that are unrelated or random. From the German Apophänie, coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958, probably from the Greek apophaínein, to reveal, from phaínein, to make visible. Its cousin, pareidolia, is the face in the bark, the creature in the cloud, the Man in the Moon." Beneath the card is the white Writing the Dawn logo, a crescent moon and star within a sunburst, with the words "Writing the Dawn, Workshops & Coaching". At the bottom, small text reads "Sources: Merriam-Webster: Apophenia".
@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 12:24 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Word of the Week: Liminal (LIM-in-ul), being at a threshold. 🌫️

Join us at Gather & Write tomorrow, Tue 29 Sept, 10–11am UK, on Zoom: a Carrie Newcomer liminal poem, a gentle prompt & quiet writing time.

writingthedawn.com/workshops

#NeuroAffirming #AntiRacist #LGBTQIAAffirming #AntiOppressive

Word card for Writing the Dawn. The heading "Liminal" sits above a misty lake with mountains, seen from the end of a wooden jetty. A cream text box reads: "Liminal (adjective) LIM-in-ul. liminality (noun) lim-in-AL-it-ee. Standing at the threshold. A liminal space is the in-between: the grey light before dawn, the tideline between land and sea, mist rising off a loch. To dwell in the liminal means to rest with what is still becoming, without hurrying it to arrive." The Writing the Dawn Workshops & Coaching logo sits below. Small print reads: From Latin līmen, "threshold." After van Gennep (1909) and Turner (1967). Entry by: Helen Edgar (2026).
@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 12:24 PM

Word of the Week: Liminal (LIM-in-ul), being at a threshold. 🌫️

Join us at Gather & Write tomorrow, Tue 29 Sept, 10–11am UK, on Zoom: a Carrie Newcomer liminal poem, a gentle prompt & quiet writing time.

writingthedawn.com/workshops

#NeuroAffirming #AntiRacist #LGBTQIAAffirming #AntiOppressive

Word card for Writing the Dawn. The heading "Liminal" sits above a misty lake with mountains, seen from the end of a wooden jetty. A cream text box reads: "Liminal (adjective) LIM-in-ul. liminality (noun) lim-in-AL-it-ee. Standing at the threshold. A liminal space is the in-between: the grey light before dawn, the tideline between land and sea, mist rising off a loch. To dwell in the liminal means to rest with what is still becoming, without hurrying it to arrive." The Writing the Dawn Workshops & Coaching logo sits below. Small print reads: From Latin līmen, "threshold." After van Gennep (1909) and Turner (1967). Entry by: Helen Edgar (2026).
@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:58 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

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@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

I have also created an essay plate about metaphoray for Queering Earth, a project I (Helen @autisticrealms.bsky.social ) have been working on with Ryan Boren at @stimpunks.org

queering.earth/metaphoray

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

Book onto the next Gather and Write session with Writing the Dawn, founded by Barb Melville, where we will be exploring liminal spaces:

Tuesdays 10-11.30am UK time
On-line Zoom
Neuro-Affirming, Anti-Racist, LGBTQIA+ Affirming, Anti-Oppressive

www.writingthedawn.com/workshops

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @writingthedawn.bsky.social

New on the Writing the Dawn Substack: Metaphoray, foraging between ways of knowing

This week at Gather and Write, we read Kimmerer's "Asters and Goldenrod" and wandered between a botanist's word and a more 'felt' word....

Find out more:
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A square graphic in soft cream and slate grey, set over a close-up photograph of bright yellow goldenrod flowers growing thickly among deep purple asters, with green leaves between them. Across the top, a cream banner reads "Metaphoray" in large grey letters.

In the centre is a rounded cream text box framed by large white quotation marks. It reads: "Metaphoray (noun, verb) met-uh-FOR-ay. Foraging between ways of knowing. A metaphoray is the walk between a botanist's word and a writer's word for the same plant, and the gap between what a label can hold and what the plant actually is. To metaphoray means to move between scientific naming and storied, relational knowing without letting either one close the other off."

Below the box, over the flowers, is the white Writing the Dawn logo: a crescent moon holding a small star, with rays of light around it, above the words "Writing the Dawn, Workshops and Coaching."

Small white text along the bottom reads: "Word credited to Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. Milkweed Editions, page 46. Entry by Helen Edgar, queering.earth/metaphoray (2026).
@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:57 PM

I have also created an essay plate about metaphoray for Queering Earth, a project I (Helen @autisticrealms.bsky.social ) have been working on with Ryan Boren at @stimpunks.org

queering.earth/metaphoray

@writingthedawn.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:57 PM

Book onto the next Gather and Write session with Writing the Dawn, founded by Barb Melville, where we will be exploring liminal spaces:

Tuesdays 10-11.30am UK time
On-line Zoom
Neuro-Affirming, Anti-Racist, LGBTQIA+ Affirming, Anti-Oppressive

www.writingthedawn.com/workshops

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