Announcements!!

Including a CALL OUT FOR CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS!

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NEUROMANCERS CIC
May 12, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Hey Divergents!

📢 Some big announcements this month! Scroll down for a brand new offering, a returning offering, and an opportunity to feature your work in the UK’s leading radical mental health magazine…

❤️‍🩹1:1 PEER COUNSELLING ❤️‍🩹

Applications are currently open on a rolling basis, or until we reach a large number of requests.

🧠About the Offering

  • NEUROMANCERS is offering our neurodivergent+ community free, 1:1 support for six (6) weeks.

  • The support is flexible to your needs and takes place online on an end-to-end encrypted platform.

  • You will meet with your Peer Counsellor each week, at the same time and day, for one (1) hour.

    PLEASE NOTE: This is not crisis support.

🧠Who can access this support?

  • We offer this program to people self-identified as neurodivergent+ who are 18 years or older.

  • You must be based in the UK or Ireland. You must have access to the internet and a device that is suitable for attending online meetings.

  • Please apply if you are confident that you will attend all six (6) support sessions.

  • You can request support by completing the online application form.

  • Applications are currently open on a rolling basis, or until we reach a large number of requests.

  • Once you submit the form, you'll be added to our waitlist. We'll reach out if we're able to offer you support.

🥳Announcing the launch of the NEUROMANCERS PEER HELPCHAT!!🥳

NEUROMANCERS Peer Helpchat is an online, anonymous, and confidential rapid response resource for neurodivergent+ people in need of mental health support.

We are responding to a gap in service provision by launching the UK's first and only, consent-led peer support helpchat for and by neurodivergent+ people.

✊Our Helpchat is:

  • dedicated to neurodivergent+ people experiencing loneliness or mental distress

  • catered to those aged 18-25

  • providing consent-led emotional support, active listening, and affirmation

  • anonymous and confidential

To access support, you must:

  • head to the link below during opening hours

  • select 'start chat'

  • complete the pre-chat survey

  • wait in the queue

  • begin your conversation with a trained neurodivergent+ Responder

You'll speak for up-to thirty (30) minutes.

👀Peer Helpchat OPENING HOURS:

Tuesdays: 10.30 - 13.30

Sundays: 10.30 - 13.30

(BST - British Summer Time)

!!!Launching 2nd June 2026!!!!

Dw, we’ll remind you ;-)

💥CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS💥

📢Announcing NEUROMANCERS takeover of Asylum Magazine!!📢

NEUROMANCERS are honoured and excited to be taking over the Autumn 2026 issue of Asylum Magazine!

Asylum, the radical mental health magazine, has been running for nearly 40 years, acting as a platform to voice and discuss all perspectives on mental health.

Our takeover of Asylum Magazine will be centered on our organisational philosophy of NEUROMANCING, or falling in love with (neuro)divergence.

All submissions should align with this, but can be interpreted in a variety of ways.

We are offering 2 submission pathways:

PATHWAY ONE: PITCHES

PATHWAY TWO: PIECES

You pitch an idea for something you have not yet created.

You submit a ready-made piece for consideration.

Deadline:

11.59pm 31st May 2026.

Deadline:

11.59pm 21st June 2026.

We are accepting a range of formats (including but not limited to):

  • Artwork 🎨

  • Guides 🤗

  • Articles 📰

  • Stories 📖

  • Poems 📜

FULL BRIEF AND SUBMISSION DEETS ON OUR WEBSITE!

✨We can’t wait to showcase all the wonderful NEUROMANCING of our community!✨

That’s it for now, folks.

❤️‍🔥Thank you for supporting NEUROMANCERS as we build accessible, abolitionist, and autonomous mental healthcare. We couldn’t do it without you. ❤️‍🔥