Goths for Breakfast 2026

Online, all-day Charity Teach-a-thon to raise money for Magic Breakfast, feeding hungry kids! Get your tickets here
28th February – open 9am-10pm GMT, pop in and out as much as you want!

The event is a day of online classes and workshops with academics, experts and writers. You can come in and out as often or as infrequently as you like through the day.

Choose your price!

You can choose your ticket price at £5, £10, £20 or £50 for the day. We want to make sure everyone can come so support at the level you can 🙂 At Magic Breakfast £5 buys approx. a month of breakfasts and support for one child. As of 2025, £14 could give 50 children breakfast for a day. £42 could get a whole class breakfast for a week!

The programme is as follows and will be updated to as the final classes are confirmed. Sessions will be recorded and sent out so you won’t miss anything whatever time zone you’re in! Interactive sessions i.e. interactive workshops may not be recorded.You can join us from anywhere in the world.

All times are GMT (British time)

9am – KJ Charles – Writing Workshop – “Fashioned Creatures, But Half Made Up” : A Workshop on Building Character through Your Text’

10am – Artemis Writers – Writing Workshop – ‘The Secret Language of Flowers’

11am – Nicole Wolverton – ‘Horror, Hospitality, and the Social Risk of Saying No’

12 noon – Evan Hayles Gledhill – ‘Consumption and Identity: The Cultural Significance of the Cannibal Queer Trope’

1pm – Alessandra Pino – Cooking Workshop – ‘A Shock to the System: Frankenstein in the Kitchen: Villain or Vermicelli’?

2pm – Siân Pearce – ‘All of Us Renfield: The Gothic Solicitor’

3pm – Cat Irving – ‘The Sack ’em Up Men on Screen: Body-Snatching Goes to the Movies’

4pm – Dan Pietersen – ‘Follow Me, and I Will be Thy Guide: A Day-Trip to Dante’s Inferno’

5pm – Johannes Evans – ‘Buttoned Up Tight: Gothic Themes in Costume Design’

6pm – Raquel Souza – ‘Latin Final Girls’

7pm – Sam Hirst – Reimagining Jane: The (Queer) Afterlives of Jane Eyre

8pm – B. Rae Grosz – Writing Workshop – ‘Limnal Spaces; or, Lakes and How To Haunt Them’

9 pm – Paul Riddell – Meat-Eating Greenery: An Overview of Carnivorous Plants

Published by SamHirst

This started off as a story blog to share the little fictions that I like to write but it's turned into something a bit more Goth! I'm Dr Sam Hirst and I research the Gothic, theology and romance and at the moment I'm doing free Gothic classes online! We also have readalongs, watchalongs and reading groups. And I post fun little Gothic bits when I have the chance. Find me on twitter @RomGothSam

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