The\u00a0School of English<\/a>\u00a0has launched a new interactive, online space for writers to share the spaces in which they write.\u00a0A Journey Around Our Rooms<\/a>\u00a0is now open to submissions until 30 June.<\/p>\n The project takes inspiration from Xavier de Maistre\u2019s \u2018A Journey Around My Room\u2019. De Maistre\u2019s book was written in 1790 when its author was under house arrest, and could venture beyond its walls only into the territories of speculation, memory, and daydream.<\/p>\n Amy Sackville, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing<\/a>\u00a0in Kent\u2019s School of English said: \u2018Like de Maistre, as writers we are used to working alone in a room, and exploring our imaginations from that vantage point. For over a year we have sat in those same rooms and joined a virtual space. We have become used to thumbnail glimpses of each other\u2019s lives and rooms in Zoom calls and online conferences. Our ways of working and community have undoubtedly changed due to the pandemic, as will our appreciation of the rooms we occupy, and ourselves. A Journey Around Our Rooms provides the platform for writers to express this, and to examine what the space means to them.\u2019<\/p>\n The website already has dozens of contributions from creative writers both from within the University of Kent and internationally, and is now open to receiving writing submissions from the public. The project\u2019s organisers advise contributors to reconsider their own spaces and the ways they inhabit them.<\/p>\n David Flusfeder, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing<\/a>\u00a0in the School of English, said: \u2018We all have an intimate relationship with our workspaces even if it is one of frustration. Living online blurs the line between public and private, and this project is a means of reclaiming and redefining that. Already it is turning into a kind of snapshot of this moment and it\u2019s fascinating to see the shared concerns and common themes that are making themselves evident. We\u2019re also looking at ways that this project might grow, and offer a space for conversations and connections between writers and artists.\u2019<\/p>\n The project is open to submissions until 30 June. Submissions can be made\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recent contributions to Journey Around Our Rooms include:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n David Herd<\/a>, poet and Professor of Modern Literature in the School of English\u00a0https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/david-herd\/<\/a><\/p>\n Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, poet and former Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent Tessa McWatt, author and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia Katarzyna Biela, PhD student studying theatre and multimodal literature in the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland
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