Articulating Age

In order to start thinking and writing about our experiences of age and ageing as LGBTQ+ people we’ve come up with some starting points to help get your creative juices flowing.

Starting Point 1:

• Age and ageing from an LGBTQ+ perspective. What does age and ageing mean to you?

Starting point 2:

• Choose 2 significant ages of your life and explain what made them significant.
• Choose 1 significant age that’s yet to come and explain why you think it will be significant.

Starting point 3:

• Write a dialogue between you and your younger self.

Starting point 4:

• A piece of writing or audio in the form of a list that begins with the following line:

‘I count the years in…’ (e.g. I count the years in heartbeats, spoonfuls of coffee, in unanswered letters, stripes on a shirt etc.)

You can respond to these starting points:

• as a piece of writing (prose, poetry, story, monologue)
• as an audio recording (talk, spoken word, reading)
• as a combination of both

Please note that:

• Each piece of writing should be no longer than 5 mins when read out loud.
• Each audio should be no longer than 5 minutes.
• There is no minimum time limit.

If you end up writing something you’d like to share with the project please email it to projectmanager@newwritingsouth.com.