Creative Critical

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23.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

I wrote about writing about a long ago trip to Faslane Peace Camp, very happy to see it published today by the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Read on desktop because the formatting is important!

23.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇

15.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social

18.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!

30.06.2025 12:30 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Manchester University Press - Critical games Critical games - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Critical games by Tim Beasley-Murray

Published today! My book on play and seriousness.

“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/

17.06.2025 08:00 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

20.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2

Help John help us 👇

27.05.2025 20:23 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A blue book resting on an open newspaper

A close up of the title and subheading of a newspaper article: ‘In their own words? Two illuminating new books on literary translation’

A close up of a photo me, a youngish woman in a white T-shirt underneath a pier. A pop out quote above it reads ‘The book keeps in sight Jen Calleja’s abiding excitement at language”

A picture of me with my head bowed over the own newspaper reading with a slight smile

“audacious, polemical, essential”

*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social

25.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

19.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

So good! Saving this…

20.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks, Jen!

20.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.

20.05.2025 07:43 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

19.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

One such haunted poet is David Miller, whose 'Then and Here: A meditation on Gérard de Nerval' we published in 2022...

28.04.2025 09:44 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'

Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'

creativecritical.net/staining-egg...

22.02.2025 14:52 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'

Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'

creativecritical.net/staining-egg...

22.02.2025 14:52 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This year I’ll be writing the ‘Fiction 1945-2000’ section for the 2024 edition of The Year’s Work in English Studies. If you published a monograph / chapter / article on (or mostly on) British fiction from 1945 to 2000 between 1st January and 31st December 2024, please let me know! Thanks

21.02.2025 11:57 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Gathering from the Past - Creative-Critical 'Gathering from the Past' by Robert Sheppard, part of 'Poetics: A Blog'

‘Poetics takes structural homologies from science and philosophy, but also from gardening and pinball, if it needs to.’

From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics

21.02.2025 11:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical

Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.

20.02.2025 15:42 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic - Creative-Critical By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.

From our archive: 'Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic' by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social

20.02.2025 15:35 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Emily, thank you for making this! Please could you add us to the pack?

20.02.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Little Death - Creative-Critical By Vijay Khurana. A Little Death is a parody project in which the author rewrites the same passage of Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ again and again (and again and again), in various styles, in an attempt to reve...

Hello, Bluesky!

We are a website for writing, research, and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices.

To give you a taste, here's one of our most popular posts: @vijaykhurana.bsky.social rewriting a passage from Joyce's The Dead.

Please share!

20.02.2025 13:39 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0