You’re invited to join a virtual community of writers exploring neuro-affirming teaching and learning through story. You can work individually but we’ll all be writing toward the same shared intention: to create a collection that celebrates diverse ways of thinking and teaching. You should aim to set aside an hour a week to work on your story. 

Across four writing weeks in November, you’ll receive a new prompt at the start of each week to help shape and develop your story, and a short check-in prompt at the end of the week to reflect and share progress. These gentle prompts are there to keep momentum, make space for your writing, and strengthen connection within the group. They’re also a great way to cheer each other on and navigate moments of “stuckness” together. We will communicate via a padlet.

At the end of the month, we’ll bring our stories together into a collective volume, to be shared via this site as part of the Academic Writing Month showcase.

We hope that the stories will be full of creativity - you can use images, sounds and videos as part of your story telling! They can be fully factual, or you can play with some fictional elements. 

Please note: because the stories will be shared publicly, you’ll need to protect other people's privacy. Avoid using real names or identifiable details, and feel free to use pseudonyms or fictionalised characters and institutions if needed.