Get involved in our workshops
Through writing, our stories will be heard.
‘Darling Darling is a sex worker-led creative project inviting sex workers, former workers, and clients to share their stories through art. Explore Storytelling, Photography and Sculpture, to transform lived experience into creative works that humanise sex work, challenge stigma, and foster connection. No creative experience is needed — everyone’s voice matters.’
Storytelling Opportunities
Stories shape the world, and too often, the voices of sex workers are spoken over, misrepresented, forced into the shadows, or erased.
These workshops are a reclamation—a space to write, to reflect, to be heard.
Join the Darling Darling journey by sharing your own stories and experiences of sex work. We have opportunities for sex workers, former sex workers AND sex work clients to share stories of the intricacy and beauty of this essential field.
Self Guided Writing Course - Online
(For full-service sex workers or former full-service sex workers who live Australia-wide)
Follow this incredible open-source self-guided writing workbook to assist you in sharing your stories
Writing Prompts for Clients
(For those who pay for sex services)
We can’t justify and humanise sex workers, without understanding and humanising those who pay for sex services. We wish to properly understand the benefits of the sex industry on our society, particularly the benefits upon the well-being of clients.
If we can empathise with the needs, desires and experiences of clients, then we can better justify as a society the importance of sex work within it!
Storytelling Submissions — FAQ
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To remain accessible and approachable for all folks, we will also be accepting spoken or oral stories, sketches, scribbles, and doodles. We hope that with more funding, we can create a series of Zines (small, self-published artistic magazines) that carry our stories in diverse ways
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Yes! You do not need to be a fluent English speaker to attend our workshops, you are welcome to attend, and to bring an ally along if you like who might be able to assist in translation.
If you submit a story online in your preferred language, we will also seek translation so that your voice may be heard across multiple languages.
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This is SO important, both for your safety, and also for the safety and privacy of those we are writing about. This project is about empowering each other, not incriminating anyone or accidentally throwing people under busses!
Our in-person workshops will guide you on how best to de-identify yourself and your stories.
The online workbook also shares tips and tools for de-identifying characters/ locations etc in your stories.
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We paid an accessibility stipend to help reduce financial barriers to those who attended our in-person workshops.
As a NFP, volunteer run collective, we do not have funding available to pay for your stories - however, we do offer other in-kind experiences to our participants, including photography and sculpture and art making workshops!
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NO! Current and former sex workers of all flavours are welcome to participate! Including: private sex workers (escorts), brothel workers, street workers, those who work for goods instead of cash and those who offer 1:1 services to clients online are welcome to participate.
Workshop Reflections - Newcastle, NSW
Spring 2025 - Images depict consenting ‘face out’ workers.
In Spring 2025 we were privileged to host a fortnightly gathering of inspiring former and current workers from within the community.
Heralding both locally, and from afar we came together under the inspirational guidance of workshop facilitators Jayne McCartney and Dr Hilary Caldwell.
For many of us, it was the first time we met such a large gathering of peers, and as many expressed, one of the first social spaces where we felt like we could completely belong and feel safe to express our experiences and stories.
Each workshop addressed themes and topics relevant to our experience working in the sex industry, traversing:
Our Bodies
Belonging (and not belonging)
Clients and Relationships
Systems and Structures and
Journeys and Futures
To access the workshop content and writing prompts from each workshop, please click the links above and feel free to explore writing, reflecting and storytelling in other mediums (such as audio recordings, drawing etc). If you would like to share your stories with the Darling Darling project, submissions can be made above.
If you are a sex worker org and would like to access and use our workshop content to create your own gatherings, please get in touch, we would be happy to share our content with you.