Women Speak Volumes SW launch their first publication, (in)visibilities

Women Speak Volumes SW launch their first publication, (in)visibilities, at The Writers’ Block

Featuring Amanda Harris, Clare Owen, Jackie Taylor, Helen Thomas, Emma Timpany, Shelley Trower,

Thursday 25 June at 7pm
Tickets £8

How do visibility and invisibility shape our lives, our work, and the ways we are heard? How does that change as the years go by? This collection of short fiction, memoir and poetry explores such questions around age and (in)visibility, presence and absence, power and voice – not as abstract ideas, but as daily realities.

We are mothers and non-mothers, daughters, friends, lovers, carers, creators. We understand what it means to be seen and unseen, welcomed and dismissed, central and peripheral – sometimes all at once. This collection claims space and embraces the freedoms that can come with age – the loosening of expectation, the sharpening of insight, the refusal to be quiet. Together, these pieces insist on presence.

In a world shaped by many and various forms of invisibility, we hope you find something here that resonates, unsettles, affirms or opens a door.