Writing now: collective conversations

Sally O'Reilly hosts a panel discussion on obsession as a methodology and as a catalyst to writing through a talking about the research and writing practices of Yuan Xiao, Fiona Glen, and Esme Boggis. 

Hosted by Moad Musbahi, Writing the Generational Subject is a refusal and rewinding of history by questioning the mechanisms and techniques in which we can write against and speak to historical erasures and ruptures. This conversation with Panashe Chigumadazi builds on an unrecorded earlier conversation with Ayesha Attah and will begin by exploring the potential histories surrounding the three Chimurengas (wars in Zimbabwe), from the resistance against colonial violence, patriarchal dominance to the homogenising power of the nation state. 

A self-spawning, potentially unwieldy performance lecture, which collages together responses from a number of invited contributors — including Bhanu Kapil, Erica Scourti, Genevieve Leong, Jeff Dolven, Katrina Palmer, Sophie Jung, and Sally O'Reilly — to a series of provocations on form. This lecture was conceptualised by Judith Hagan, Bryony Bodimeade, Yin Ying Kong, and George Leith.

Join the acclaimed novelist, historian and mythographer, Dame Marina Warner, for a monstrous discussion about feminism, animism, horror, and folklore—with MA Writing students Fiona Glen, Hattie Gibson, Laura Robertson, and Yin Ying Kong. 

In this panel discussion on the craft of writing, Johanna Hedva hosts a conversation about the language of ableism and productivity, wellness in a capitalist framework, and the interconnected relationship between sickness and an exploited planet. Laura Robertson, Nina Hanz, Hattie Gibson, Harriet Welch, and Johanna Hedva all read from their latest projects.

This conversation explores human bodies, bodies of land, systems, and structures. Hosted by Tai Shani, with new readings by Nina Hanz, Rosie Higham-Stainton, and Harri Welch, a discussion around the politicised body within personal and universal experiences is shaped and reconsidered.