When I Say No’, published by the Asian Women Writers Collective (AWWC) in 1991, is the outcome of a series of creative writing workshops held in community centres and schools in Tameside, Luton, Birmingham and Bradford. The workshops were made possible through a grant from the Arts Council. The excerpts which have been digitised include: the introduction, information about the tutors, and the writings which were produced from the Tameside and Bradford workshops. The workshops were led by experienced tutors who encouraged participants from different age groups and backgrounds to write freely and take part in exercises geared towards developing creative writing skills. The Bradford workshop, for example, focused on a guided visualisation exercise in which participants were asked to imagine a character and write down his/her personal characteristics before forming a narrative.