July Newsletter
It’s great having this newsletter as a way of being in touch in advance of our first WordPath session this September. We’ve started planning and thinking about the writing exercises we want to share with you, and the various ideas we have in store to really move your fiction forward. In the meantime...
WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING:
ELIZABETH CHAKRABARTY: LESSONS IN LOVE & OTHER CRIMES
“Twice in my life, when I’ve least expected it – relaxed in a bar with acquaintances, a glass of wine in my hand – someone has asked me this question: “When did you realize you’re not white?”’
This timely, thought-provoking and compelling novel blurs boundaries and challenges us to look again at the toll of racism on both the individual and the culture. Elizabeth Chakrabarty deftly weaves memoir, essay and fiction to devastating effect.
WHAT WE’VE BEEN WATCHING:
Great drama from Turkey on Netflix. Almost novelistic in the way it depicts the lives of women, children and families in a time of change… Novelistic too, the sense of quiet, of interiority in the midst of drama and event.
WHAT’S GOT US THINKING:
Great conversations about local literature, idiolect and dialect with the Orkney writer Duncan MacLean whose work on the New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson has brought us to this terrific new publishing house:
WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO LATELY:
Imagined Spaces - an online space for thinking about literature, architecture, memory… All gathered together in the activity of “essaying”... a kind of thinking aloud on the page.
GITANJALI & BEYOND ISSUE 5: THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS:
How has the pandemic affected our creativity?
BE INSPIRED:
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge,"
