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Power and Pleasure: Announcing Monthly D/s & Erotica Writing Workshops for 2025

I’m so excited to invite you to this monthly series of live, interactive workshops designed to support two key areas of your life: your D/s relationships and your erotic writing practice. We alternate each month between two ongoing tracks—one focused on Dominance/submission dynamics, the other on writing bold, explicit, and authentic erotic fiction.

You’ve likely been to a workshop with me in the past, so you know that my workshops are casual, creative, and community-centered. They’re held in a queer-, kink-, and trans-focused space that’s trauma-informed and committed to decentering white supremacy in how we learn and create (and how I facilitate). All experience levels are welcome—whether you’re new, nervous, or experienced and looking for new depth.

(If you haven’t been to a workshop with me, watch for an announcement about the Sugarbutch VIP webinar archive, opening soon exclusively for Patreon subscribers.)

2025 Upcoming Workshop Schedule:
JULY – Enhancing Long Distance D/s
AUG – Fierce Submission: Spicy Publishing 101
SEPT – Daddy 101: Build the Foundation
OCT – How Do I Write the Sex Part Tho?!
NOV – Frameworks for D/s Training
DEC – Get Yourself Off: Spicy Self Publishing 101

Here are details about the two tracks:

🔥 Erotica Writing Track

These sessions are for closet writers, seasoned authors, and anyone reclaiming their sexy voice on the page. You’ll get:

  • Writing prompts and technique tips
  • Encouragement to get messy and explicit
  • Practical info about publishing and sharing your work
  • A growing community of fellow smut-loving writers

And, in addition to workshops, you could join us for:

  • Regular writing sprints
  • Spicy publishing resources
  • Marketing support for your published work

🖤 D/s Relationship Track

These workshops are for anyone curious about or already practicing D/s—whether long distance, 24/7, casual, or committed. You’ll walk away with:

  • Frameworks and tools to support intentional power exchange
  • Strategies for building trust, connection, and roles
  • Supportive, shame-free space to ask questions and explore

Coming soon:

  • A monthly dominant discussion group (stay tuned!)

To attend: You must be subscribed at the webinar level or higher on Patreon.

Can’t join Patreon? Email me or DM me – sinclair@sugarbutch.net – to talk about alternatives.
I’m so excited to gather with y’all more often, and dive deeper into both erotica writing and D/s topics.

PS: Did you notice that I announced dates for the 2025 Writing Spicy group already? Save the date! The next Writing Spicy: 6 Week Online Erotica Writing Workshop will happen October 5 – November 16, 2025. More information or get on the list to be notified when registration opens at www.writingspicy.com

Published by Sinclair Sexsmith

Sinclair Sexsmith (they/them) is "the best-known butch erotica writer whose kinky, groundbreaking stories have turned on countless queers" (AfterEllen), who "is in all the books, wins all the awards, speaks at all the panels and readings, knows all the stuff, and writes for all the places" (Autostraddle). ​Their short story collection, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, was a 2016 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and they are the current editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series. They identify as a white non-binary butch dominant, a survivor, and an introvert, and they live outside Seattle as an uninvited settler on traditional, ancestral, & unceded Snoqualmie land.

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