Tentacles Creative Writing Masterclass: Lottie Mills

Come and create in community! Explore creative writing in this masterclass for disabled writers. All levels welcome.

💻This is a hybrid event with IN-PERSON and ONLINE tickets available.💻

Join Tentacles for a creative writing masterclass for anyone who considers themself to be d/Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and/or chronically ill. Learn how to craft beautiful language and evocative details into a powerful short story, harnessing mythology and folklore to create your own haunting modern fairytale. Reclaim familiar folktales to create a powerful exploration of difference.

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This masterclass will be lead by Lottie Mills, who is the author of Monstrum, which was longlisted for the International Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2025. In 2020, while studying English at Newnham College, Cambridge, she won the BBC Young Writers’ Award for her short story ‘The Changeling’. She has written for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, The Mays, and British Vogue, and has spoken about her work on Life Hacks, Front Row, and Woman’s Hour. She is currently studying for an MPhil in English at the University of Cambridge while working on her second book.

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Tentacles is run by and for disabled people. We will ask you to provide a few personal details in advance to make sure we can meet your access needs, and if you have any questions, please get in touch with us!

Pricing

We know finances can be a barrier to accessing creative workshops, which is why we’ve set up ticketing as donation based. However, we ask that you consider the guidelines below for how much you pay for this course. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances - you won’t be asked for any proof, we just ask that you are honest. We think it’s important to make workshops accessible for disabled people, and we also believe in valuing disabled people’s work! These prices cover all 4 weeks of workshops (6 hours tuition), plus editing support, anthology submission feedback and private community access.

• 0-£6: Discounted rate for those who would struggle to pay the standard workshop fee. For people who frequently stress about meeting basic needs and don’t always achieve them
• £7-£15: We think this range fits in the ‘standard fee rate’ and is for folks who stress about meeting basic needs but still regularly achieve them
• £16-35: The ‘pay it forward’ rate. For those who want to support initiatives like this and are able to financially do so

If you have a personal support/care assistant and you are planning to attend in person, please book an ‘in person assistant’ ticket for your PA as we need to know how many people are going to be in the room for health and safety reasons.

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