INK + ETHOS
Storytelling & Multi-Genre Practice through an Intersectional Lens
Ink + Ethos offers workshops and programmes for scholars and creative practitioners who want to write beyond the academy — and do so with imagination, courage, rigour, and ethical care.
Writing as Practice
We believe writing isn’t something you “master.” It’s a living practice — shaped by reflection, experimentation, and shared inquiry.
We work from an intersectional lens that values neurodivergent ways of thinking and creating, and recognizes that dominant writing conventions often carry colonial assumptions about what “good” writing should look, sound, and feel like.
In an era where AI reshapes how we create and communicate, Ink + Ethos asks: How can storytelling remain responsible, creative, and distinctly human?
Writing as Practice
We believe writing isn’t something you “master.” It’s a living practice — shaped by reflection, experimentation, and shared inquiry.
We work from an intersectional lens that values neurodivergent ways of thinking and creating, and recognizes that dominant writing conventions often carry colonial assumptions about what “good” writing should look, sound, and feel like.
In an era where AI reshapes how we create and communicate, Ink + Ethos asks: How can storytelling remain responsible, creative, and distinctly human?
What We Do
Our core offerings include:
- Workshops: Small, reflective writing sessions focused on voice, ethics, and experimentation.
- Programmes: Structured, multi-week explorations that blend creative and scholarly writing.
- Community: A shared space for critical conversation, creative exchange, and accountability.
All offerings are in the English language, guided by the belief that writing is not just communication — it’s a practice of thinking, feeling, and being in the world.
Who It’s For
Ink + Ethos is for anyone who wants to write with both heart and intellect, mind and body — and who sees writing as a practice of attention and responsibility.
- Writers (and students especially) keen on finding their voice and story.
- Scholars and practitioners reaching wider audiences without losing nuance or complexity, and those experimenting across genres and forms.
- Those exploring ethical storytelling — consent, voice, and representation.
- Anyone questioning inherited writing “rules” and seeking approaches that honour different ways of thinking and knowing.
Who It’s For
Ink + Ethos is for anyone who wants to write with both heart and intellect, mind and body — and who sees writing as a practice of attention and responsibility.
- Writers (and students especially) keen on finding their voice and story.
- Scholars and practitioners reaching wider audiences without losing nuance or complexity, and those experimenting across genres and forms.
- Those exploring ethical storytelling — consent, voice, and representation.
- Anyone questioning inherited writing “rules” and seeking approaches that honour different ways of thinking and knowing.
What Makes Ink + Ethos Different
Most writing spaces teach technique. We co-explore stance.
- Writing as an act of self-exploration and integrity, not just output.
- Multi-genre methods that move fluidly between memoir, essay, fiction, reflection and more…
- A co-learning model: facilitator and participants build together.
- Space for neurodivergent approaches to writing — honouring non-linear thinking, different processing speeds, and varied creative rhythms.
- Attention to whose stories have been centered, whose voices have been marginalised, and how we can write in ways that don’t replicate extractive patterns.
Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa
Environmental anthrologist & cultural geographer
University of Bonn, Germany
rsiriwar[at]uni-bonn.de
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This programme is a co-learning space. It is not offering a finished formula — I’m sharing a practice. I’m working through myself. Moving between academia, creative nonfiction, and fiction, I want to invite others to question inherited forms and find their own. To write imaginatively, ethically, and with deep human presence — especially in a machine-shaped age where so much writing flattens difference and replicates dominant patterns.
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