My name is Ennis Welbourne and I use they/them pronouns. I am a writer and artist living in Bristol. 

Free Offerings

I am passionate about delivering free peer-to-peer groups and workshops for marginalised creatives. I do so under the banner, Access Narrative.

In May 2026 I’ll be starting, ‘Parallel Writing Club’, an online body doubling space for writers to connect with others and gain support with building a regular writing practice. Our sessions take place twice a month on Fridays, 11-1pm – tickets available here.

I am currently developing a new series of guided writing workshops suitable for online and in-person groups. I delivered the first session in this new series for We are Sensoria’s Chronically Ch(ILL) group, on the topic of pendulation, rumination and dreaming.

I developed my second session, ‘Starting with Fragments’, whilst taking the UpFront Survivors Creative Leadership Training Programme ran by the Viv Gordon Company. This training has improved my skills with designing and facilitating safer creative spaces for survivors of child sexual abuse. I delivered this in-person session as part of the Feb2026 Workshop Weekender.

I am a survivor of sexual, physical, emotional and neglectful child abuse. I use my lived experience to develop more accessible community for those who are non-conforming, disabled, poor and who have experienced abuse.

I hold a first-class degree in creative writing from Bath Spa University and have been facilitating online creative writing workshops and courses for the last five years.

Paid Support

I provide paid mentoring and editing services to writers seeking individual support with their creative projects. Since 2021, I have been aiding writing tutors to deliver high quality online teaching. If you’d like to hire me for my facilitation services, please get in touch by emailing enniswelbourne@gmail.com.

I work part-time as Assistant Editor for London Lit Lab, a business providing online creative writing courses, mentoring, and groups for adults. You can join me 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.

If you’d like to otherwise financially support me, you can donate via Paypal or Stripe.

My Writing

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

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

I performed at ‘Sharing the Words’, an evening of performances from the CSA Survivor community. This was part of the Feb2026 UpFront Survivors Weekender, hosted by Viv Gordon Company. You can read my piece here.