Really excited for our first 2026 event! This time we'll repeat last year workshop as many people were interested in participating. If you're around, do sign up! lnkd.in/eMrTWebX spaces are limited!
Really excited for our first 2026 event! This time we'll repeat last year workshop as many people were interested in participating. If you're around, do sign up! lnkd.in/eMrTWebX spaces are limited!
We’re kicking off our next event, ‘Sabyn Javeri in Conversation with the North Modern and Contemporary Network’, at @ToonLibraries! 📚
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ALT Sabyn Javeri, sitting on the stage in Newcastle City Library. She has dark hair and is wearing blue jeans and a black blazer. She is also wearing dark-rimmed glasses.
ALT Sabyn Javeri, sitting on the stage in Newcastle City Library. She has dark hair and is wearing blue jeans and a black blazer. Yeisil is sitting with her, who is wearing a white shirt, a dark top and a skirt with a cherry pattern on it. She has dark hair and is wearing clear-rimmed glasses.
Onto the second part of the event — a workshop on Sustainable Writing Practices! ✍🏻
ALT Yeisil and Sabyn perched on the stage. A white worksheet is held up, with the title ‘Write On: Sustainable Writing Practice Workshop by Prof. Sabyn Javeri.’
“Storytelling doesn’t have to belong to one tradition. These are stories that we tell ourselves. Sometimes we have to outrun them.”
“What are the stories you’ve been told to carry? What are the stories have you never dared to write?”
She cites Carol Ann Duffy, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde (and others), as key inspirations — they “reached into silence and found voices.” Sabyn started to think, ‘could I write something like this, too?’
“Being human isn’t about living in the stories that are handed to us, but rewriting them.” 📝
“Translation has become a way back in for me. I’m interested in the tales from the kitchen table. In these stories, I sense something radical.”
We had a lovely time with @anniezaidi yesterday at @READEnglish with lots of participation and a visit to the pub! Thank you to everyone who made it and shared their writing outcomes. What a lovely evening! More events by our NMC to come soon :)
ALT NMC Presents 'Creative Writing as Research Practice: A Workshop' with writer Annie Zaidi. 28.01.25, 6pm-6pm. ER146 (Elvet Riverside I), Durham University- 83 New Elvet, DH1 3AQ. Discuss the ways in which creative tools can be applied to your own writing. Participate in two creative writing exercises which will help to locate the context of your work and hone your voice. Annie Zaidi is a bilingual writer. Her award-winning body of work spans multiple genres including non-fiction, fiction, scripts, poetry and graphic storytelling.
📢The CfP for our next WHN-BACLS conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling) is now live!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36PPd7 and send us your abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025.