![]() ‘Bodies Politic’ with Matthew Green and Janet Wolff Note the change of room to 243 on the second floor - IES, Senate House Salih and Baker, Palgrave, 2009) and other work, presenting a creative and multilayered approach to Julian. She will read from her chapter 'In the Centre' (in Julian of Norwich's Legacy, eds. This evening, Sarah will discuss her creative nonfiction work on medieval visionary Julian of Norwich, which draws on her unique experience of working in the Julian Centre, Norwich. Sarah Law has written five poetry collections, the latest of which is Ink's Wish (Gatehouse, 2014). Her work is featured in anthologies from Penquin and Virago and she contributed to the Future of Digital Creativity panel at the CREATe Festival in 2016. ![]() Anna’s current work includes a memoir and a textbook on ethics and consent in creative non-fiction. She has studied, commented on, and taught research ethics, and consent and life writing and is a member of the English and Comparative Literature Dept at Goldsmiths. ‘Negotiated Truths’: Anna Derrig and Sarah Law Gordon Room, G34, (ground floor) IES, Senate HouseĪnna Derrig works in the evolving field of ethics and contemporary life writing. Meg will read from her memoir and also address the ethical terrain of nonfiction writing, asking whether it deals in the kinds of truths that change our understandings of that word. Editor, with Margaret Jolly, of Life Narratives and Human Rights, her work on auto/biography appears in journals including Lifewriting and Textual Practice. Meg Jensen directs the Centre for Life Narratives at Kingston University London. She will address current forms and approaches in cnf in relation to identity politics and other areas of contest/contemplation. Sharmilla’s novel Echoes of a Green Land was published in Spanish translation and her essays appear in Sable LitMag and elsewhere. Sharmilla Beezmohun is the Deputy Editor of Wasafiri and co-founder of Speaking Volumes Literature Productions which, after a US tour by Black British Writers, has received an International Showcasing Grant from Arts Council England. She will present the work as well as talking about the challenges of negotiating the research for life-writing – from written sources to oral histories. Hannah Lowe used both public and personal archives to write her memoir Long Time, No See which is partly focused on her Jamaican-Chinese father who arrived in Liverpool in 1947. ‘Contested Spaces’: Hannah Lowe, Sharmilla Beezmohun and Meg Jensen Gordon Room, G34, (ground floor) IES, Senate House All are welcome to these free events. Refreshments are served. We are delighted to welcome the writers and thinkers below and hope many will join us for lively debate and conversation. It’s a particularly interesting time for creative nonfiction at the OU since the module team developing the new MA in Creative Writing is part of creating the canon and since several OU Associate Lecturers and PhD students are engaged in exploring the distinctive possibilities of creative nonfiction. We hope to characterise the current debates and to predict what new developments might emerge within, and from, the form. Such forms raise questions about genre boundaries and authorial intent as well as debates about truth and representation. Writers have therefore developed and refined their approaches to life-writing, reportage, travel writing, the lyric essay and literary autobiography. Has the democratization of literature and the effects of gender-, identity-, and cultural politics offered new ideas on what is worthy of literary engagement? The memoir, the critique, the lyric meditation and the researched fact are all part of contemporary creative nonfiction. Taking off from what Whitman says about ‘the imaginative faculty of modern times’ as giving ‘ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives’, this series reflects on whether the popularisation of creative nonfiction is related to a parallel change in our cultures. All events are free and everyone is welcome to come along. The seminar series is hosted by The Open University’s Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group in partnership with the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Location Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.Īutumn 2016 series of OU CCW readings and seminars
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