The Pour Over

A guided journey into your creative writing – and life.

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Coaching

• Mentoring

• Community

• Confidence

• Coaching • Mentoring • Community • Confidence •

A fully funded summer writing container for emerging women of colour writers in the UK.

The Pour Over is a fully funded eight-week online programme for women of colour who feel called towards writing, creativity and a more expansive life — on the page and far beyond it.

It is designed to help you reconnect with your voice, build momentum, move through blocks and create from a place that feels more like you. Whether you’re writing fiction, memoir, essays, scripts, poetry or coming back to the page after a long hiatus you are welcome here.

creative life

/ˈkriːeɪtɪv laɪf/

A way of living where creativity isn’t separate from your life, but woven into how you think, choose, and show up in your everyday — on the page and far beyond it.

The Creative Process

No, seriously. We play and remember by returning to what we loved — in childhood, in stories, in the things we’re drawn to without trying. With the simple purpose of finding joy on an ordinary Tuesday and reconnecting with what lights us up.
We pay attention to what pulls us in. What feels interesting, expansive, a little bit electric —
and we let that lead, even if it doesn’t make sense yet. Especially if it doesn’t make sense yet.
Think: your childhood dress-up box. We give ourselves permission to experiment. To write differently, think differently and move – and be seen – differently without needing it to be final or the full story.
We notice what expands. What feels like you, what brings energy, ease, curiosity and joy — and, maybe more importantly, what doesn’t.
We keep what fits, release what doesn’t, and tweak what wants to feel more like you. And we begin to shape a creative practice — and life — that feels true to you.
Not when it’s perfect but when it’s ready enough. On the page, and off it, in your own way. As a way of being seen for who you really are, and of living what you’re creating in real time.

Inside The Pour Over, we won’t only focus on the writing itself. Perhaps more importantly, we’ll also explore the writer behind the work – because often what’s blocking you is happening long before the page.

So, over eight weeks, we’ll move through Ella’s signature creative process: