there's more to it than milk

writing maternity as a mammal

as promised, i am overjoyed to share the first of the moss and milk writing workshops with mothers, writers, carers, growers, including

Alice Kinsella

, Victoria Adukwei Bulley,

Kerri ní Dochartaigh

, and Liz Berry (more to come!). this is a series of online writing workshops around mothering, caregiving, interconnectedness, nature, and everything in between.

live session spaces are limited to 12 and ‘playback-only’ tickets are available for anyone who can’t make the live session (if you’re a paid subscriber and would like a playback-only ticket let me know — it’s one per year). there is also one subsidised place per workshop, please get in touch if you would like to apply for this space. deadline for this is march 15th.

if you would like to book directly to avoid platform fees, let me know!

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WORKSHOP 1 DETAILS

‘There’s more to it than milk'

Writing maternity as a mammal

with Alice Kinsella

May 9th, 10:30-12:30 BST, online, live ticket £20, playback only £10

We all come from a womb. We are nourished in our earliest months by milk. We have a four chambered heart that pulses life to each extremity of our body.

We’re often encouraged to separate ourselves from animals, yet, when do we feel more animal than during birth? With birth’s connection to both sex and death, the ultimate creaturely motivators, maternity holds physical, philosophical, and emotional questions which we will begin to explore in this introductory workshop.

Join Alice Kinsella, poet and author of Milk: on motherhood and madness, for two hours of creative prompts, samples of writing, and insights on craft.

Alice Kinsella is the author of poetry pamphlet Sexy Fruit (Broken Sleep, 2018), and her prose debut Milk: on motherhood and madness (Picador, 2023) received critical acclaim. She edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis (Doire Press, 2021). She co-authored Wake of the Whale (Mayo Books Press, 2024) which was a Sunday Independent Book of the Year. The Ethics of Cats (Broken Sleep, 2025), her debut full-length collection of poetry, will be published in 2025. She is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist. Alice is an experienced editor and mentor and has been teaching creative writing for over a decade. She writes

(Mam)mal

, a Substack about motherhood and the mammalian experience in times of crisis. Alice lives in the Mayo countryside on the west coast of Ireland with her family and a clowder of morally dubious cats.