Language as Lament, Resistance and Repair with Khairani Barokka
A masterclass in writing creatively in times of personal and planetary mourning. Multi-format writer and activist Khairani Barokka takes us through a range of exercises as we consider how to write with grief, both as a subject matter (from losing loved ones to thinking about climate erosion, war, and societal upheaval) and as a lived experience. Together, we will consider how to build community as a means of repair. In this session, come and find out how to capture and honour what is disappearing and disappeared, in a safe and supported environment.
This event is part of the Conscious Writing Month 2025 Masterclass series from The Literary Consultancy. Curated by Jade Cuttle.
Conscious Writing Month: Five Masterclasses
- A Masterclass in Slowness with Alycia Pirmohamed
- Page Presence with Salena Godden
- Writing With Grief, led by Khairani Barokka
- Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor, Rishi Dastidar and Natasha Carthew
- Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou
Plus, a Bonus Session from TLC’s Aki Schilz – a special and exclusive guided meditation for agent success.
Khairani Barokka is a writer, artist, arts consultant, translator and editor from Jakarta. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, in dozens of countries, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, environmental justice, and access as translation. She regularly lectures, judges, mentors, and consults for arts organisations, and has a PhD by Practice in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths. Okka was the first Poet-in-Residence at Modern Poetry in Translation, later co-edited their Body Issue, and eventually became the magazine’s first non-British Editor. Barokka’s work has appeared in GRANTA, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Ambit, Magma, Wasafiri, Stand, The New Inquiry, Asymptote, among others, and she has also co-edited Massachusetts Review’s Disability Justice Issue. Published works include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, co-editor), Rope (Nine Arches), Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and amuk (Nine Arches), currently longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize. Her nonfiction debut, Annah, Infinite, is forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press in 2025.
Find out more information about the programme on The Literary Consultancy website.
Individual Masterclass Ticket, £15 each
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