Hello, I’m Dal Kular. I’m delighted to connect with you.
I’m a creative facilitator, writer, mentor and interdisciplinary maker from Northern England. I’m passionate about sharing creative writing and making arts for healing, liberation and courage. From leaving school at 16 years old with 3 O-levels, to severe burnout, grief and loss – I’ve used the power of words and creativity to write myself back home, working on the lifelong journey of decolonising myself, become useless to capitalism (bronte velez) and transforming my life. And this is what I love sharing with others.
I feel like a wild archive ~ full of experiences, learnings, (ancestral) knowledges, studies, makings, troublings and a whole load more. I’m dedicated to lifelong learning in anti-colonial approaches to creative writing and making arts for healing, transformation and liberation, inspired by and always learning from Black/Brown and Global feminist scholars and practices to which I’m eternally grateful. You can read more about why I started this substack here.
My debut poetry book (un)interrupted tongues was released in 2022 by Fly On The Wall Press. I’ve been sharing my words & knowledges online since 2014 via blogging, workshops, co-writing spaces, online open mics & sharing my Field Notes newsletter since 2018 (now merged with A Wild Archive). I also work with the therapeutic writing and creative arts out there in the world, in-person, with beautiful human beings. You can find some examples of my facilitation, workshops and work here.
After experiencing two close bereavements within 6 months of each other and two head injuries during 2020-2022, I’ve felt closer to mortality. And a sense of urgency to share more of my wild archive, because if not now, when?
Since those head injuries and bereavements the world has turned on its axis. Now in 2025, writing feels more important than ever. And more dangerous for many folks globally. The journalists, the poets, the writers and creatives and academics are always some of the first people to be imprisoned or killed or tortured during genocides, war and ongoing colonisation and erasure of people and cultures.
Your words do matter. Writing about this moment in time matters. How do we live and love in discombobulated times?
As a Brown woman, I believe if we don’t tell our stories, who else will? We have to become grassroots archivists and re-write our histories.
Publishing schedule.
Straight up, there isn’t one.
This space reflects the necessity of rest and idling and pottering as essential elements of our wildness, imagination and creativity. And to not bombard your inbox.
This space is a slow archive as well as a wild one ~ that sits outside of linear time constraints and deadlines. A space to archive beautiful, meaningful and uplifting work that unfurls naturally.
I’m a neuro-gorgeous creator, living and working with physical limitations and disability – alongside my part-time day job – which means I need to pace myself. As I’m still recovering from two head injuries, for now I’ll be using this space to mash-up, remix and archive existing works and occasionally share work-in-progress and creative practices. This publication is a mash-up of somethings and everythings. I hope you find something here to inspire you, and your word-making.
All my essays are free and always will be. Subscribing means you’ll never miss an article, tiny podcast, or update. They’ll come straight to your inbox.
100,000 THANK YOU’S for being YOU and being here with me on this journey. Our words are powerful and so are we.
In wild solidarity,
Dal xo
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