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Tag: creative non-fiction

Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum

14th December 202215th December 2022  Lisa Goodrum

Heavy with heartache and loss, Lisa Goodrum turned to the haunting photography of Francesca Woodman to make sense of the pain and the blurry, achromatic period that was the summer of 2019. Here, in hauntingly beautiful prose, she tells her story.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, arts criticism, creative non-fiction, Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Lisa Goodrum, love, memoir, relationships, Robert Mapplethorpe

The Dinner Party Reloaded 5: The Memoirists & Fiction Writers

24th November 202227th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

For her fifth dinner party, author and host Susanna Crossman talks to writers Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Lily Dunn and Shamini Sriskandarajah about eliding the barriers between fiction and non-fiction, the ethics of (memoir) writing, diverse ways of reading via Lydia Davis and whether to “glam up” or dress down when sitting down to write.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Alan Bennett, Bending genre, cartharsis, creative non-fiction, David Shields, Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Fiction, Lily Dunn, Lydia Davis, Margot Slinger, Nicole Walker, non-fiction, Polari First Book Prize, Reading, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded

An Interview with acclaimed author Savala Nolan: ‘Liminality gives me a sense of having multiple passports. It renders me a kind of polyglot and translator’

9th November 202210th November 2022  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Acclaimed author Savala Nolan talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her latest collection of essays, Don’t Let It Get You Down (The Indigo Press), navigating interstitial spaces and identities, the ubiquity of violence to women, imagination as a vital tool to access African American history and life writing as a form of cartography for readers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: African American history, Black Women Creatives, Black Women Writers, Bodies, creative non-fiction, Don't Let It Get You Down, essays, Feminism, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Intersectional Feminism, interviews, My Body's Bodies Editorial, non-fiction, personal essay, Saidiya Hartman, Savala Nolan, The Indigo Press

What Happened to the Adders? by Suzannah Ball

31st March 202131st March 2021  Suzannah Ball

In this personal essay, Suzannah Ball meditates on what death means for those left behind, the experience of intergenerational grief and the effect of small but continuous losses on our lives.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, death, grief, Intergenerational grief, loss, mortality, Pandemic, Suzannah Ball

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

‘Labelled for Your Convenience’ by Marissa McCallam

19th June 20203rd August 2020  Marissa McCallam

In this witty and moving piece, Marissa McCallam reflects on navigating the world as a brown girl, encountering other people’s racist views and prejudices, connecting with her mixed heritage and embracing the freedom and power of ambiguity.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Black Lives Matter, Centre Myself, creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, Marissa McCallam, non-fiction, Race, Racial Identity

‘Three Wise Women’ by Irenosen Okojie

25th May 202022nd October 2020  Irenosen Okojie

In her latest work of creative non-fiction, award-winning author Irenosen Okojie explores the rich legacy of hope and life handed down through her mother and grandmother. In hauntingly beautiful prose, Okojie reflects on how past events can offer light and healing in present times of difficulty.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Butterfly Fish, Caine Prize for African Writing, creative non-fiction, Dialogue Books, Elitsa Dermendzhiyska, essay, Irenosen Okojie, Jacaranda Books, Nudibranch, Short Stories, Speak Gigantular, Three Wise Women, Unbound

‘Nebula of the Sea’ by Tilda Bowden

23rd January 20206th May 2020  Tilda Bowden

Writing of her own experiences of under water diving, Tilda Bowden describes a world of wonder beneath the surface of the sea by day, and its celestial transformation by night.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, EnvironmentTagged: creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, Environment, Night / Shift, non-fiction, Ocean, Paul Klee, swimming

Threads by William Henry Searle – a rich and brilliant tapestry of nature’s wilds

19th March 201928th August 2019  Gabriela Frost

William Henry Searle’s Threads is a call to order and serves to remind us of our material and spiritual reliance on the natural world. But is Searle’s encounter with nature relatable? asks our arts writer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, Books, EnvironmentTagged: Chris Packham, creative non-fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, memoir, nature, New Forest, Snowdonia, Threads, William Henry Searle
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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