Join PublishED and Typewronger Books for a workshop with Farhaana Arefin of Hajar Press and writer Mohamed Tonsy!
What if rage could be a craft? In this workshop we’ll read, write, and think together about anger as a compass—how to name it, shape it, and use it as an insightful tool in literary endeavours. Many of us cage rage and try to swallow it whole as we watch our worlds burning around us, but we may need to sit in the fire to truly understand it.
This is also the theme of Hajar Press’ latest publication, The Hajar Book of Rage, where writers explore rage as a politically transformative power in their essays, poetry, and fiction. Let’s try to do the same! Come ready to draft, listen, and leave with tools for sustaining heat without harm.
Tickets can be purchased from the EUSA website.
Date: November 7, 19:00-21:00
Location: Typewronger Books, 4a Haddington Place, Edinburgh, EH7 4AE
Farhaana Arefin
Farhaana Arefin is an editor and organiser based in London. She is a co-founder and co-publisher of Hajar Press, an independent press based in London and born out of frustration with the mainstream publishing industry—its institutional racism, commericial trend following, and domination by Amazon.
As a political publisher, they seek to address structural inequalities. They reject diversity as a means to combat racism and instead build something new, led by and for our own communities. She is also a consulting editor at Hurst Publishers.
Mohamed Tonsy
Mohamed Tonsy is a queer Egyptian writer and ceramicist. Formerly an architect and a triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, he completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh and now works at Lighthouse Books. His writing has appeared in Mizna, Epoch Press, and Hajar Press. He was shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short Story Competition and is up for election for the Society of Authors Management Committee.