In this essay published in Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety, @katepullinger reflects on the long term impacts of a terrible review for her first novel. ❤️🩹
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Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...
We are very proud the Deputy Prime Minster @AngelaRayner has been an advocate of British Sign Language (BSL) having learnt BSL. Now it’s time to ensure BSL is placed in every deaf child’s hands because the system doesn’t offer free BSL to parents of deaf children #BSLinOurHands
Part time lecturer creative writing (poetry) now advertised at @BathSpaUni please share round your networks especially those from @GoldsmithsUoL
Focused primarily on undergraduate teaching, there will also be opportunities to contribute to MA in Creative Writing #poetrycommunity
Starting a new novel? Only two places left on this wonderful online writing retreat! A rare opportunity to work with novelist Jill Dawson @jdawsonwriter : gold-dust.org.uk/divein/
Lovely article on how to improve your reading habits or start reading more with a great boost for my smartphone ghost story, Breathe, from @IanCooke13 at the British Library: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
Last few days to apply to join us as a PostDoc Impact Research Fellow, helping us evaluate our community projects - two years, full-time: bathspa.pinpointhq.com/en/po…
Creative Conversations @CCCIBathSpa with the eARTh research group @BSUEnvHums
26 March 1-2 pm GMT
Our special guest is neuroscientist Dr Lua Koenig @nyuniversity who will share how imagination is a form of thinking that is highly valuable for scientists!
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‘I simply would not be where I am without the mentorship of Sarah May under the Gold Dust mentors program....' Is it time you had a writing mentor? We have places available, for writers to work one to one with one of our mentors, to start in March. Apply now.
Thank you, @katepullinger@RiannaDearden@Reham_Hosny_S and Joanna Zylinska for a fascinating panel discussion on 'Exploring AI Generative Tools for Enhancing Creativity Across Genre'
(funded by MyWorld, Bristol University)
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