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Matwaala’s Poets of Colour Series: Native American Women Poets

8th August 20229th August 2022  Lucy Writers

Matwaala’s latest Poets of Colour series brings together four poets and one artist whose work explores the lands, rivers, culture and histories belonging to and inherited by contemporary Native Americans.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Andrina Smith, Indigenous peoples, Jeremy Dennis, Kamala Platt, Lucille Lang Day, Matwaala, Native American Poets, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women poets

Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.

13th July 202214th July 2022  Lucy Writers

Five writers – Nasim Marie Jafry, Laura Elliott, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright and Louise Kenward – discuss what it’s like to write with M.E. and how chronic illness has forced them to discover new modes of understanding, new forms of expression, new realms of imagination (as edited by author Katy Wimhurst).

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright, Katy Wimhurst, Laura Elliott, Louise Kenward, M.E., My Body's Bodies Editorial, Nasim Marie Jafry, writing

Two poems from ‘dirty glass | the glass house’ by Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes

13th April 202213th April 2022  Lucy Writers

In these captivating poems from their joint project, Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes explore the fluid relationship of two narrators to their bodies, to the people surrounding them, and to the physical spaces their bodies occupy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Charley Barnes, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Wendy Allen

From Bed to Shed: Writing Through the Pandemic

31st March 2022  Lucy Writers

Two years after the first UK lockdown, writers Shamini Sriskandarajah and Elodie Barnes reflect on how the restrictions (and opportunities) of Covid-19 have altered and shaped their creative practices.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, InterviewsTagged: Covid-19, Elodie Rose Barnes, Lockdown Living, lockdown writing, Pandemic, recovery, Shamini Sriskandarajah, writing

Lucy Writers Announces Our New Arts Council England Funded Project, What the Water Gave Us

24th February 202224th February 2022  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers is proud to announce its new Arts Council England funded mentoring project, What the Water Gave Us, for emerging women writers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Non-FictionTagged: Arts Council England, Arts Council England National Lottery Grant, Brexit Britain, Burley Fisher, Claire Hynes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Emma Claire Sweeney, Emma Hanson, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Immigration, Irenosen Okojie, Jenny Chamarette, Lucy Cavendish College, migrant writers, Migration, Pandemic, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, Selin Genc, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Shirley Ahura, So Mayer, Susan Barker, Takeaway Press, The Ruppin Agency, water, What the Water Gave Us, Yen Ooi, Yvonne Battle-Felton

Poetry by Mexican Women Writers

22nd September 202124th September 2021  Lucy Writers

Usha Akella and Pramila Venkateswaran present the second collection of poems by Mexican women poets – Ana Belén López, Natalie Toledo, Elsa Cross, Maria Baranda and Mariana Bernardez – held in honour of Matwaala’s 2021 Festival of Poets of Colour series.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Ana Belén López, Carolina V.Zapata, Clare Sullivan, Elsa Cross, Juan M. Esquivel, Maria Baranda, Mariana Bernardez, Matwaala, Mexican Poets, Mexican Women Writers, mexico, Natalia Toledo, nature, nature writing, Octavio Paz, Paul Hoover, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Susan Ayres, Translation, Usha Akella

Matwaala 2021, Poets of Colour Festival: African American Women Poets

12th May 202112th May 2021  Lucy Writers

For their Poets of Colour Festival, Matwaala 2021 brings together five prize-winning African American women poets – Dorothy Randall Gray, Cynthia Manick, Loretta Diane Walker, Marsha Nelson and Anastasia Tomkin. Here, Lucy Writers showcases their brilliant, moving work, which ranges from a celebration of Black motherhood through to the final moments of George Floyd’s life.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: African American women poets, Black Lives Matter, black women, BLM 2020, daughters, Gandhi, George Floyd, John Lewis, Matwaala, Motherhood, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women writers

Midwinter with Margaret Tait: Readings of Personae

16th April 202116th April 2021  Lucy Writers

On the anniversary of the death of writer and filmmaker Margaret Tait, we celebrate her life’s work with a recording of our event Midwinter with Margaret Tait, a book launch in collaboration with LUX London and So Mayer, which featured special guest speakers Sarah Neely, Lottie Whalen, Pema Monaghan and Alison Miller.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Film and MediaTagged: Alison Miller, Benjamin Cook, Faith Ringgold, Film, Gees Bend Quilting, Lottie Whalen, LUX, LUX London, LUX Scotland, Margaret Tait, Midwinter with Margaret Tait, Nina Mingya Powles, Orkney, Pema Monaghan, Personae, quilting, Sarah Neely, self-publishing, So Mayer, Takeaway Press

Booker Prize Shortlist 2020: a daring, diverse and deserving line-up of authors

12th November 202013th November 2020  Lucy Writers

Our contributors review this year’s Booker Prize shortlist and find a daring and diverse list of authors from around the world who all deserve to be celebrated.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Avni Doshi, Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize, Booker Prize 2020, Brandon Taylor, Canongate, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Faber & Faber, Maata Mengiste, Man Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Busby, Oneworld Publications, Picador, The Booker Prize 2019, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Streaming in the Time of Covid-19: Curated Recommendations

29th April 202029th April 2020  Lucy Writers

As the internet will have no doubt reminded you, staying at home and catching up on some Netflix is now officially *heroic*. Here’s an eclectic mix of streaming recommendations from our contributors.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Anne with an E, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Films, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hulu, Lagaan, Long Shot, Mad Men, netflix, Theory of Everything

Stories to Stockpile: Books to soothe, inspire & entertain during self-isolation

26th March 202029th April 2020  Lucy Writers

In these difficult, uncertain times, we’re turning to books for consolation, comfort and creative inspiration. Here are our writers’ suggestions for reading during self-isolation.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Annabel Banks, Becky Chambers, Books, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Cygnet, Dialogue Books, Dialogue Books Lounge, Edith Pattou, Edward carey, Eimear McBride, Elizabeth Goudge, Exercises in Control, Faber, Fantasy, Irenosen Okojie, JD Salinger, Little, Millie Seaward, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Nudibranch, Patsy, Philip Pulman, Season Butler, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Stories to Stockpile, Ursula K Le Guin, Yukiko Motoya

Lucy Writers’ Contributor Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019

16th October 201917th October 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers are proud to announce that Gabriela Frost, a regular arts writer for the platform, has been shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, under the category of ‘Criticism’. 

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Posted in Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Andrew O'Hagan, arts, BBC, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, criticism, Gabriela Frost, Gaby Frost, journalism, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Writers, Martha Kearney, Radio 4, Sarah Sands, Sathnam Sanghera, Student Critic of the Year 2019, Student Journalism, Today Programme

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