Young Enigma

Young Enigma Young Enigma supports young and emerging artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer. Visit youngenigma.com for more information.

We are based in Manchester but have worked with writers across the UK. Young Enigma is a writer development project supporting emerging writers and performers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer. Our core members meet regularly to write, perform and create together in Manchester city centre. Besides running the annual LGBT History Month Writers in Residence programme, we offer i

ntense mentoring and one-to-one support to a range of writers and performers aged 18-30 under the LGBT(Q) umbrella. In addition, we host open workshops and provide general support to any artists who identify as LGBT(Q). Our writers and performers span genres and have varying levels of experience. Many of them have worked in education and are available for bookings in schools, universities and libraries; and at festivals and live events. Check back regularly for new writing, competitions, calls for submissions, and ways you can get involved. Young Enigma was established with seed funding from Commonword, Manchester's writer development organisation. The Writers in Residence programme was generously supported using public funding by the Arts Council's Grants for the Arts scheme. We work in collaboration with LGBT History Month, Schools Out, The Classroom and LGBT Youth North West. You can find out more about Young Enigma at http://www.youngenigma.com/.

29/07/2025

As part of his PhD, writer Adam Lowe is surveying writers and facilitators who have engaged with Commonword's writer development activities over the last 50 years, including those who've taken part in Young Enigma workshops and events. The aim is to find out what's important to Manchester's writers, and how to better support a diverse range of writers both in Manchester and further afield. One of the outcomes of the project will be a guide to supporting writers more holistically in a variety of settings (formal/informal, grassroots/professional, etc).

Adam will also be directly interviewing writers who've been involved with Commonword's work over the last five decades, via Zoom. If you're interested in chatting for no more than an hour, contact Adam on [email protected].

You are being invited to take part in a research study as part of the PhD research project Borderline/Imaginative Caminos: Intersectional self-determination in the poetic voice of minority poets engaging with Commonword in Manchester from 1977-2022. For this part of the project, I am exploring how w...

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21/08/2020

Against the roar of destructive noise, the minds behind TransBareAll decided to mark ten years of work by speaking for themselves, on their own terms, at a time when trans voices are rarely allowed to be heard.

This book is a collective endeavour of words and artwork. The contributors within followed the path dug by the few trans writers who are now starting to get some recognition, and took inspiration from the knowledge that within the trans community there is a huge wellspring of talent, knowledge and experience. The result is something quite extraordinary.

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A powerful, celebratory collection of trans voices and artwork. | Check out 'TransBareAll - 10 Years, Still Here' on Indiegogo.

20/03/2020

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