Susanna Crossman

This is happening next week! Join @susannacrossman.bsky.social and writers from across Europe to think about place in writing and read some fantastic texts to inspire new thought.

‘Our imaginations are creatures as limited as we ourselves are.’

Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.’

Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches , speech Of courage and resistance

‘Our imaginations are creatures as limited as we ourselves are.’

Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.’

Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches , speech Of courage and resistance

Wild Women Writers Salon 21: Writing Memoir as Resistance & Reclamation Dig deep into writing memoir, with host Victoria Bennett, & guest authors Elissa Altman, Lily Dunn, Catherine Simpson, and Susanna Crossman

Am doing a Wild Women Writers Salon about memoir as resistance and reclamation Thursday, Feb 26 from 8 pm to 9:30 pm CET, alongside the brilliant @lilydunn.bsky.social @elissaaltman.bsky.social and Catherine Simpson. Please join us !

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women...

Mercredi matin.

Mercredi matin.

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Then, @susannacrossman.bsky.social will be running a fantastic workshop for us on 11 March exploring place and time in memoir and fiction.

Wild Women Writers Salon 21: Writing Memoir as Resistance & Reclamation Dig deep into writing memoir, with host Victoria Bennett, & guest authors Elissa Altman, Lily Dunn, Catherine Simpson, and Susanna Crossman

Am doing a Wild Women Writers Salon about memoir as resistance and reclamation Thursday, Feb 26 from 8 pm to 9:30 pm CET, alongside the brilliant @lilydunn.bsky.social @elissaaltman.bsky.social and Catherine Simpson. Please join us !

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women...

Les tulipes. Dimanche.

Les tulipes. Dimanche.

Samedi après-midi.

👀 @stuhennigan.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social

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Samedi après-midi.

“One of the most difficult, but important, tasks of our time […]: the task of preserving and of liberating thought from the notion of value.”

— Blanchot, “What Is the Purpose of Criticism?” (from the preface to Lautréamont and Sade)

(trans. S. and M. Kendall)

Places are available on this online course that @susannacrossman.bsky.social will run on 11 March for @saloneurope.bsky.social. For #memoir / non-fiction writers. #writingcommunity

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You’re welcome . You have to enroll for the class to access the recording.

Places are selling fast for my course on 11/03 from 6.30-8.30 pm GMT with the extraordinary @saloneurope.bsky.social ! Join us if you're writing narrative nonfic or memoir, and are inspired by landscape, setting and time: where are we standing? What in this place makes us feel alive?
All welcome!

It will be recorded if that helps Marc.

YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything InnerViews#765 Susanna Crossman

Was interviewed by the extraordinary Gerry Fialka last night. We talked about writing and books, memory, revenge , unselfing, machines and being and more. It was a brilliant experience. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTh...

Places are selling fast for my course on 11/03 from 6.30-8.30 pm GMT with the extraordinary @saloneurope.bsky.social ! Join us if you're writing narrative nonfic or memoir, and are inspired by landscape, setting and time: where are we standing? What in this place makes us feel alive?
All welcome!

“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.”

(Musil, The Man without Qualities)

Wonderful to see The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize longlist out in the world. For months, I've been feverishly reading, thinking & debating with fellow judges @marinabenjamin.bsky.social & @stuhennigan.bsky.social. Read the 10 brilliant books - each is a pearl! Congrats to writers & presses!

Wonderful to see The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize longlist out in the world. For months, I've been feverishly reading, thinking & debating with fellow judges @marinabenjamin.bsky.social & @stuhennigan.bsky.social. Read the 10 brilliant books - each is a pearl! Congrats to writers & presses!

It was great fun. I loved it.