SEX WORKER WRITES

Inclusive, constructive space for sex-working writers to hone their storytelling craft.

Statement of Purpose

This group is about community & accountability. It is
to help us all form or maintain good writing habits,
to balance pocket-filling work with spirit-fueling work
to show up to our projects, to give our geniuses space to spin their magic,
to source insight & encouragement from committed peers,
to give & receive the gifts of readership & feedback,
to combat imposter syndrome with empowerment & education,
& to transform how sex work narratives reach a grander audience. 

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Current Programming

About the Facilitator

My SW pseudonym is Madeleine Blair (anything but he/him). I’m based in North Carolina. Before spending much of the last decade as a FSSW, I earned both a MFA & BA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. However, I am a poet at heart; terrifyingly, I’ve recently ventured into fiction & screenwriting.
I publish under my government name and have worked as a both a magazine copy-editor and English prof. I currently self-publish a blog and provide independent freelance editing services. Over the years, I have led many community creative writing workshops. This one is by far my favorite.

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“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. … Use up lots of paper. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are an artist’s true friend.”
Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird
“I could not have written [Girlhood] without believing in the reader who needed it. At the outset of the process, before I could muster much tenderness for my young self, I could love that invisible reader. I could feel her love in return. And as I wrote, her figure expanded and contracted until it matched the shape of my young heroine.”
Melissa Febos, Body Work

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Email swerwrites@gmail.com with the information requested below (preferred), or fill out this form.

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Madeleine Blair is an editor, memoirist, sex workers’ rights activist & professional companion based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sex workers everywhere stand in solidarity with the victims and survivors of labor trafficking and exploitation. If you or someone you know is being forced to work against their will, you can contact the SWOP’s Community Support Line at 877-776-2004 -or- the Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-3737-888 for support.