{"id":2216,"date":"2021-09-24T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:32:19","slug":"speculative-futures-and-thinking-an-event-with-author-sophie-mackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2021\/09\/24\/speculative-futures-and-thinking-an-event-with-author-sophie-mackintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Speculative Futures and Thinking&#8221; &#8211; an Event with Author Sophie Mackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture and the American University of Paris are pleased to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophiemackintosh.co.uk\/\">Sophie Mackintosh<\/a> as our Paris Writer in Residence 2021.\u00a0The\u00a0Paris School of Arts and Culture will be welcoming\u00a0students and guests for a presentation and Q&amp;A with Sophie <strong>on Wednesday, 6 October from 7-8:30 pm<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Entitled &#8220;Speculative Futures and Thinking&#8221;, Sophie&#8217;s talk will explore what&#8217;s beyond what we know of as &#8216;speculative&#8217;, and how we can use that kind of imaginative zone as a way to think and develop our writing across all modes and genres.<\/p>\n<p>Born in South Wales in 1988, Sophie is currently based in London. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published by\u00a0<em>Granta<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The White Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Stinging Fly<\/em>, among others.\u00a0Her debut novel\u00a0<em>The Water Cure<\/em>\u00a0was published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK in Spring 2018 and by Doubleday in the US in early 2019, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her second novel\u00a0<em>Blue Ticket<\/em>\u00a0was published in Summer 2020 to critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>To attend this free event, <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/Eg0cJwghMT\"><strong>please RSVP at this link<\/strong><\/a> by 5pm, Tuesday, 5 October. You must reserve your place for admittance.\u00a0 A French &#8220;pass sanitaire&#8221; will be required upon entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture and the American University of Paris are pleased to welcome Sophie Mackintosh as our Paris Writer in Residence 2021.\u00a0The\u00a0Paris School of Arts and Culture will be welcoming\u00a0students and guests for a presentation and Q&amp;A with Sophie on Wednesday, 6 October from 7-8:30 pm. Entitled &#8220;Speculative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74581,"featured_media":2222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,124,150024],"tags":[252403,252402,250840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}