Ennis Welbourne (they/them) is a marginalised writer and artist facilitating free peer-to-peer online groups for writers under the banner Access Narrative. They use their lived experience to develop accessible community for those who are non-conforming, disabled, poor and who have experienced trauma.

Ennis has a first-class degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. They provide paid mentoring and editing services to writers seeking individual support with their creative projects. Since 2021, they have been aiding writing tutors to deliver high quality online teaching. If you’d like to hire them for their facilitation services, please get in touch by emailing enniswelbourne@gmail.com.

Ennis works part-time as Assistant Editor for London Lit Lab, a business providing online creative writing courses, mentoring, and groups for adults. You can join Ennis via a paid subscription to The Writing Laboratory for Accountability Club, a twice monthly Zoom-based group where writers come together to gain the benefits of a regular writing practice.

Ennis is working on an illustrated memoir called Problem Behaviour. You can read two poems, ‘Fossil’ and ‘A Photo–’, from their project in the survivor writers' collection You Are Here. You can find out more about the origins of this project via Substack alongside their musings on how we can use creative writing to aid trauma recovery.

You can read ‘lobster,snake’, an extract from their speculative fiction novel-in-progress, Break Tender, in Transcribed: An Anthology of Transgender Writing. Their poem ‘All Girls’ School’ was published in the anthology from Muswell Press, Queer Life, Queer Love 3.

If you’d like to financially support them, you can do so via Paypal or Stripe.