FREE & ONLINE — Hustle the Blank Page: The Craft and Business of Writing About Sex Work
Online event / Jan 20 from 10am to 11:30am PST
FREE for people with lived experience in the sex trade.
Hosted by Spokeshub of Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Build tools for developing your own prose style and techniques for future writing projects.
Not to be too obvious, but writing about SEX WORK means writing about both erotics and labor. These challenging topics are highly personal and extremely political. Whether you’re writing for artistic self expression, journalistic investigation, or simply to get a bunch of stuff off your chest, sex work writing by sex workers can be fraught with misunderstanding even as it has the potential for liberation.
Join Tina Horn, longtime pro-domme and pornographer, as well as high profile published writer of both nonfiction and fiction, for a workshop about sex industry writing. We’ll discuss some vital questions like: Are you writing as the same persona you use for clients? Do you want your writing to be a turn-on? How do you defy stereotypes even when they’re sorta true to your life? What if you want to discuss federal policy, grassroots organizing, or whoremother history when your editor wants you to utilize tropes?
The class will address topics of publishing, genre, craft, and more:
What are motivations for writing memoir, and what are some options beyond autobiography?
What anonymity can we expect in today’s world of surveillance?
What are the book, podcast, magazine, self-publishing, and public speaking spaces really like in 2026 in terms of payment and exposure?
We’ll discuss how to draw from your own experiences, how to use your imagination to experiment, and how to value the erotic elements of your creative life.
Comedy and tragedy, mystery, world building, concrete detail, abstraction, aesthetics, story structure, character arcs and archetypes, tease and denial, irony, client dialogue, pulling back the curtain to the locker room, the good bad and ugly of coming out, shoes, doctor’s appointments, taxes, social media, and more are in play for this one-of-a-kind craft class. We’ll include collaborate prompts and an optional chance to share your work with one another.
You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of why you want to write about sex work, tools for developing a prose style all your own, techniques to bring to future projects, recommendations of great writing by sex workers, and a chance to participate in a live Q&A.
This 90-minute session starts at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT/1pm ET on Tuesday, January 20, 2025 and is only for people with lived experience in the sex trade.