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

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 run 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.

My Writing

In February, I performed my speech Sharing the Words, at the UpFront Survivors Weekender, hosted by Viv Gordon Company.

My poem All Girls’ School was published in Queer Life, Queer Love 3, an anthology from Muswell Press.

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.

You can read lobster,snake, an extract from my speculative fiction novel-in-progress, Break Tender, in Transcribed: An Anthology of Transgender Writing.

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.