We’re back 💕💕💕 book now for November 🖊️ 📕
We’re delighted to announce the fifth iteration of The Compost Library: WRITING THE SHIFT – Writing Towards Transformation.
Across four gently held sessions, we’ll explore the radical tenderness of Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown; a text rooted in emergent strategy, care-based accountability, and transformative justice. This course invites you to approach writing not just as a creative act, but as a process of ongoing personal and collective change.
Where previous Compost Library programmes began with authors offering creative structures or ecological cosmologies, this iteration centres writing as a relational and restorative practice; one that allows us to compost perfectionism, shame and fear, and nurture new stories through trust, truth, and connection.
With brown’s lens of “loving correction” as our guide, we’ll explore how to meet ourselves and each other with more curiosity and compassion. We’ll ask: what needs to be rewritten? What stories are ready to evolve? How can we practice creative accountability on the page and beyond it?
“Loving correction is the root of transformative justice. We want to call people back in, not out. We want to bring people back into right relationship.” — adrienne maree brown
Each week we’ll read together, write in community, and reflect through prompts, dialogue and gentle somatic practices. This course is about slowing down, listening closely, and allowing what wants to emerge to take shape. It’s for writers, artists, organisers and anyone drawn to the messy, beautiful process of becoming.
🔗info about price, dates and logistics at the link in bio 🔗
For this special edition of Compost Compact, Worms partners with Penguin Books and David’s Bookshop (@davidsbookslgc ) to deliver a one-night-only course, looking at the importance of the books we love and the authors who shape us 📚
In the evening, co-founders of the @compost.library Clem MacLeod (@clompch ) and P. Eldridge (@pierceeldridge ) will host a workshop with a focus on comfort, exploring the idea that nothing soothes like a book. Drawing upon @penguinukbooks titles by authors Deborah Levy, Shon Faye, James Baldwin, Clarice Lispector, Tove Ditlevsen, and more 💙
Additionally, there will be a Worms popup in-store where magazines and books will be available to purchase 😇
⏰: 25 July, from 6–8pm
📍: David’s Bookshop, 14 Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City SG6 3DE
Tickets are free to attend with a capacity of 35-40 participants. Be sure to RSVP to [email protected] 💌
See you there! 😄
We’re so excited to share the 6th edition of The Compost Library: Writing the Shift (again) ✍️🌱💫
Over 4 gently-held sessions, we’ll dive into Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown; a powerful text rooted in emergent strategy, care-based accountability & transformative justice 🌀💗
This offering centres writing as a relational & restorative practice. Together we’ll compost perfectionism, shame & fear—and grow stories rooted in trust, truth & connection 🌿🫂📝
We’ll explore: 🔍 What needs to be rewritten? 💬 What stories are ready to evolve? 🌀 How do we practice creative accountability, on the page & beyond?
💬 “Loving correction is the root of transformative justice... We want to call people back in, not out.” — amb
Each session includes shared reading, writing in community, gentle somatics & reflective dialogue. A space for artists, organisers, writers & anyone drawn to the messy magic of becoming 🌊📚✨
📅 Dates: Wednesday: 2, 9, 16, 23 July
⏰ Time: 6–8pm
📍 At: Young Space (@young_space__ ), London N1 3JS
🪑 30 spots only – commitment to all sessions is key to building trust & shared learning 💞
📓 Includes workbook + Compost Notebook
💰 Pay what you can (min £20/session)
💌 Questions/access needs: [email protected]
Facilitated by @clompch + @pierceeldridge 💚
Ready to write the shift? Link in bio ⛓️🫶
In the summer of 2023, I was a part of the video essay scheme at @w_shed in Bristol for their Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis film festival. I got to watch loads of films and have classes on film criticism and hang out with the sweetest people and it was a real highlight of my year. After the festival, each of us was commissioned to make our own video essay based on what we had seen in the programme during the week. My piece ended up as an experimental collage of five films, Drylongso, Jeanne Dielman, Midnight Cowboy, Millennium Mambo and The Virgin Suicides with an original score by myself. I wanted to use clips from these films to enact a feeling of domestic entrapment, beginning this process of understanding what I had lived in until I was 25 and titled it “It Takes Time to Build Castles’ not knowing this is what I would go onto develop in @compost.library classes and would later become the title of my book with @w0rms.w0rld .
It was during the final process of titling the book that I realised this film had set the tone of what I went onto create for the overall arc of the story and that they were one in the same. I am really proud of this film and the experiments I took in the edit, I love editing film so much and this extension of collage as a life mantra that I find freedom in. Thank you to all of my fellow film heads I met being a part of this group, Cinema Rediscovered, Jonathan Bygraves, Liz Greene, Maddy Probst, Will Digravio, Tara Judah and Watershed and the filmmakers who made the films I collaged from, I <3 the cinema forever !!!!!! so excited for this film to be out in the world <3
The film is also available on my website if you want to watch it there :-) and if you want to buy my book it is on the worms website/in my bio !!
✨✨If you didn’t make it to our ‘Writing the Shift’ workshops, please see this special edition workbook bundle as your hybrid solution. Included here is an A4 4-booklet pack of all the course material we provided over the sessions for ‘Writing the Shift’, printed and wiro bound, for you to work with at your own pace and leisure from wherever you are. Edited and designed by Clem MacLeod and P. Eldridge.✨✨
Available to buy via link in bio and on the @w0rms.w0rld website 💕
Over at @w0rms.w0rld we’ve published a book of poems by @tobycarveryprincessxoxo who many of you will have met at the Compost Library over the years.
Sky has been one of the longest standing compost attendees and it is with such joy that we got to publish her debut book of poems. These ones pictured were written at Compost, and many seeds were planted for the whole book.
Big proud moment from Compost. Book available to buy via link in bio. 100% of proceeds from badges go to @doorsteplibrary
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We’re so excited to share the 5th edition of The Compost Library: Writing the Shift: Writing Towards Transformation ✍️🌱💫
Over 4 gently-held sessions, we’ll dive into Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown; a powerful text rooted in emergent strategy, care-based accountability & transformative justice 🌀💗
This offering centers writing as a relational & restorative practice. Together we’ll compost perfectionism, shame & fear—and grow stories rooted in trust, truth & connection 🌿🫂📝
We’ll explore: 🔍 What needs to be rewritten? 💬 What stories are ready to evolve? 🌀 How do we practice creative accountability, on the page & beyond?
💬 “Loving correction is the root of transformative justice... We want to call people back in, not out.” — amb
Each session includes shared reading, writing in community, gentle somatics & reflective dialogue. A space for artists, organizers, writers & anyone drawn to the messy magic of becoming 🌊📚✨
📅 Dates: Wednesday: 9, 16, 23 & 30 April
⏰ Time: 6–8pm
📍 At: Young Space (@young_space__ ), London N1 3JS
🪑 30 spots only – commitment to all sessions is key to building trust & shared learning 💞
📓 Includes workbook + Compost Notebook
💰 Pay what you can (min £20/session)
💌 Questions/access needs: [email protected]
Facilitated by @clompch + @pierceeldridge 💚
Ready to write the shift? Link in bio ⛓️🫶
thank you so much to the darlings that joined us at @seventhgallery for another Compost Compact 🩵 what a treat to facilitate a body poetics class, with motifs of spiders and webs emerging, and an all together “reciprocity” 🗣️🥹🪽 bon voyage Naarm, Melbs x ✨🫧📝
thank you so much to the team at @lucy_folk for having us at their Naarm, Melbourne location today for a special Compost Compact: a course specifically designed to enhance the individual creative potential of all participants for workplace success 💘🪽 manifesting: a soccer save from the right, the infamous carrot man, and gold cars ✨
🚨 NEW T-SHIRTS AND SOCKS 🚨 we have a VERY LIMITED few of our amazing t-shirts and socks with @bacteria.books available to purchase on the Worms Website. Get them while they laaaaa🪱🪱🪱ttttt!!
Artwork by @hannabelecter and tees screenprinted by hand by @heavypress_ ❣️
