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Category: 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

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

Spin, Thread, Weave by Rym Kechacha

22nd June 202223rd June 2022  Rym Kechacha

Chance encounters, random moments, fateful figures spinning a celestial web. These are the images and occurrences that form the life and work of Surrealist artist Remedios Varo and inspire author Rym Kechacha’s own writing, especially her latest novel, To Catch a Moon.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Benjamin Peret, chance, Chiqui Weisz, essay, fate, Janet Kaplan, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Surrealism, Women in the Arts, Women surrealists

Had One Thing Changed by Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

23rd May 202223rd May 2022  Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

The joy of love is often coupled with the fear of loss. Here, novelist Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood recalls how anxiety before her wedding returned her to the impermanence of life, to its multiple pathways and infinite realities, as explored in her new book, The Constellations of Eve.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, Books, buddhism, Constellations of Eve, death, grief, Had One Thing Changed, loss, love, Novel, relationships

Patterns by Jane Hartshorn

26th April 202227th April 2022  Jane Hartshorn

In this poetic prose piece, Jane Hartshorn’s experience of Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder leads her to explore – through physical encounters, popular culture, and past relationships – the connections that we try to see between the disparate elements of our lives, in twists and turns that often have no neat resolution.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, PoetryTagged: Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour, Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder, Jane Hartshorn, My Body's Bodies Editorial, prose poems

Bunny Slopes by Clare Moore

14th April 2022  Clare Moore

Skiing down the snowy mountains of Virginia, Clare Moore learned to explore, to venture, to extend the limits of the possible and confront what Simone de Beauvoir once termed as the ‘timidity’ inhibiting women physically to be in the world.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Clare Moore, exercise, Feminism, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Simone de Beauvoir, skiing

Owning the Body by Ayo Deforge

21st March 2022  Ayo Deforge

In this moving and powerful piece, Author Ayo Deforge discusses bodily agency, freedom of choice and consent, and the French state’s unrelenting control over citizens’ bodies during the pandemic.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: Bodies, Corona Virus, Covid-19, France, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Pandemic, vaccination

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf

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

The Café and the Writer by Naima Rashid

15th February 202215th February 2022  Naima Rashid

Naima Rashid reflects on the pleasure and importance of the café space to her writing practise – a room of one’s own away from the demands of home and hearth.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: café, Lockdown, lockdown writing, Motherhood, Naima Rashid, Pandemic, women writers, writers, writing, Writing Life

Missed Hands by So Mayer

5th October 20216th October 2021  So Mayer

Tara Fatehi Irani’s outdoor performance, Mishandled Archive, dismantles and remantles the archive, embodies and rebodies memories, and, in its fragmentary state, gives us something to hold whilst holding us, writes So Mayer, in their stunning reflection on the artist’s work. With contributions from Elhum Shakerifar and Sam Fisher.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Dance, Non-FictionTagged: archives, Dance, Elhum Shakerifar, Fred Moten, Mishandled Archive, Performance, performance art, Samuel Fisher, So Mayer, Tara Fatehi Irani, The Conference of the Birds

Dwaal by Irenosen Okojie

4th October 20216th October 2021  Irenosen Okojie

In this courageous and powerful piece, Irenosen Okojie discusses the emotional abuse and exploitation Black women creatives have experienced in various arts industries and calls for greater accountability amongst white male perpetrators.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: art, black women, Black Women Creatives, Black Women's Lives Matter, Dwaal, Feminism, FKA Twigs, Intersectional Feminism, Irenosen Okojie, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Reese Witherspoon, Rolake Osabia, Shirley Jackson, Tina Turner

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