Join us on Tuesday 1st December, 6:30pm, for Crip Scripts with writer Kat Benedict.

Crip Scripts is a workshop for writers who live with, move with, or write towards chronic illness, disability, and cripped embodiment. It’s for writing that doesn’t straighten itself out for the comfort of an imagined norm.

Instead of chasing tidy transformation arcs, we’ll ask what happens when narrative becomes a site of resistance: where coherence slips, time thickens or stutters, and bodies speak in registers beyond cure and clarity.

We’ll read short excerpts from disabled and sick writers who push structure until it strains, folds, or bends, and who refuse the familiar loop of suffering and recovery. Then we’ll write our own experiments, making room for repetition, pain, interruption, pleasure, slowness, refusal, humour, flare, and change. Through experimental writing prompts, we’ll explore fragmentation, nonlinear storytelling and fabulation as ways of unsettling familiar narrative forms.

Grounded in narrative cripping, a method that unsettles the expected shape of a story, the session honours the knowledge produced through altered states, medical trauma, care entanglements, and crip time.

Writers of all genres and backgrounds are welcome, especially those identifying as disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mad, or sick. You don’t need to call yourself a writer to join—just a willingness to be with your body on the page.

This free event will take place at Auto Italia. To book, follow the link here or email info@artworkassociation.org

Kat Benedict is a writer, researcher and facilitator. They work across death, memory, grief, literacies, and erotics through the body, the page, and the archive. Using a queer crip methodology that disrupts normative knowledge—making through fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, their practice develops “crip scripts” as a mode of writing and making.

A 2026 Curationist Foundation Fellow, they research representations of illness and madness in museum and visual collections, reflecting on the conditions and constraints of agency within these systems today.