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Beyond The Spectrum

National creative writing programme lead by and for Autistic writers.

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BEYOND THE SPECTRUM BLOG – Seeking submissions!


Share your writing with us!

As part of the dedicated Beyond the Spectrum website, we have a new blog!

We’d love to use this as a place to share content from our participants, Lead and Shadow Writers, and everyone else in our community with something to say!

We’re happy to share creative writing (poems or excerpts); pieces talking about your own experience; thought-pieces; writing about research; photography and art work; relevant book and film reviews – and more! We have some guidelines for potential bloggers here but drop us a line if you have further questions on admin@beyondthespectrum.uk AND info@beyondthespectrum.co.uk (copy both into your email).

There are no deadlines, please do send us writing and pictures you’d like to share with the world!

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Why is Beyond the Spectrum Different?

April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance month and over the month we’ve reflected on what makes joining Beyond the Spectrum different to joining other creative writing groups.

Call for Submissions: Girls Interrupting

BTS Lead Writer Emma Robdale tells us about her new anthology, currently open for submissions. Its name takes inspiration from the iconic Girl Interrupted (1990), a film confronting difficult questions around the treatment and experience of Neurodivergent+ Women. Set in the 1960s, it followed the lives of women held in an asylum, many of which had been pathologized simply for failing feminine expectation; If they could not be ‘amended’, it was widely accepted that society would be better off without them …

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