{"id":1526,"date":"2017-11-16T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/anthology-of-moments-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:43:37","slug":"creative-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/creative-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Creative Work: Creative Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emerging from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/files\/2018\/01\/Creative-Manifesto-Translating-Pain-Wasson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Manifesto,<\/a>\u00a0I invite <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submissions<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0\u2018FLASH\u2019 ILLNESS WRITING,\u00a0short-form creative work<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>which expresses a <strong>moment<\/strong> or fragment of experience of persistent pain;<\/li>\n<li>which takes either the <strong>perspective<\/strong> of a person experiencing the pain or the perspective of a witness (carer or healthcare professional);<\/li>\n<li>which captures any <strong>dimension<\/strong> of experience \u2013 physical, emotional, social, economic, institutional, medical, spiritual, or creative;<\/li>\n<li>which communicates in<strong> any emotional register<\/strong>, positive or negative;<\/li>\n<li>and which can be <strong>shared<\/strong> and used by others to try and communicate the vivid, contradictory, and diverse realities of living with chronic pain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The parameters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>short-form creative writing, from 5 to 150 words,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>in any <strong>form<\/strong> (e.g. prose or poetry; autobiography, fiction, or a blend);<\/li>\n<li>optionally can be accompanied by a single <strong>image<\/strong> (photograph or artwork); can also take the form of a single comic \u2018panel\u2019 or short sequence, to fit on a single screen;<\/li>\n<li>the fragments\/moments\/glimpses to be shared online with attribution, under <strong>Creative Commons Licensing (BY-NC) 4.0<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>authors can choose to be <strong>anonymous, pseudonymous or named<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deadline<\/strong>: \u00a0I will be adding submissions to the project throughout 2018, \u00a0but the earlier the submission the more likely it is to receive wider exposure, so early submission is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/files\/2018\/01\/Creative-Manifesto-Translating-Pain-Wasson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Manifesto\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/files\/2018\/01\/WEBSITE-Participant-Information-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information for Participants<\/a>, and you are welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit work here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>MANIFESTO<\/h2>\n<p><strong>SINCE\u00a0<\/strong>people living with persistent pain often suffer\u00a0<strong>invisibility\u00a0<\/strong>and struggle for\u00a0<strong>legitimacy<\/strong>\u00a0and credibility;<br \/>\nsince long-term pain is often wrongly assumed to be a<strong>\u00a0temporary and unnatural\u00a0<\/strong>state;<br \/>\nsince pain experience is\u00a0<strong>diverse\u00a0<\/strong>and must be understood\u00a0<strong>intersectionally\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(through interweaved categories such as gender, race, sexuality, and class);<br \/>\nsince pain\u2019s\u00a0<strong>causes\u00a0<\/strong>can be cryptic, multiple, personal, social, environmental, transgenerational, and hidden;<br \/>\nsince pain\u00a0<strong>science\u00a0<\/strong>is neither widely understood or well-funded, and requires wider dissemination;<br \/>\nsince pain experience\u00a0<strong>exceeds the language<\/strong>\u00a0of medicalisation;<br \/>\nsince pain\u00a0<strong>undercuts illusions of human autonomy\u00a0<\/strong>and self-sufficiency, showing that all people are v<strong>ulnerable and interdependent<\/strong>;<br \/>\nsince pain may impair the ability to\u00a0<strong>work<\/strong>, in which case those living with it may be wrongly seen as not living a \u2018useful\u2019 life;<br \/>\nsince\u00a0<strong>witnessing pain\u00a0<\/strong>makes profound claims on \u2013 and poses challenges for \u2013 carers, family members, and healthcare practitioners;<br \/>\nand since chronic pain affects\u00a0<strong>every dimension\u00a0<\/strong>of life \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u2026 I call for creative work which engages these invisibilities, these lacunae, these intersections \u2013 moments in public or in shadows, in loneliness or connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>YET \u2013 pain experience may not lend itself to established forms of either illness narration or survivorship story:<\/strong><br \/>\nthe experience may lack an\u00a0<strong>ending<\/strong>, where resolution is reached;<br \/>\nit may lack a\u00a0<strong>beginning<\/strong>, its causes hidden;<br \/>\nit may break the\u00a0<strong>positivity imperative \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>to be hopeful, a warrior, a survivor, a meaning-finder;<br \/>\nit may be\u00a0<strong>incommunicable<\/strong>, resisting representation, yet may simultaneously\u00a0<strong>engender language<\/strong>;<br \/>\nit may be a story not (only) of a personal journey, but also of wider\u00a0<strong>social\u00a0<\/strong>calamities and inequalities, both contemporary and transgenerational;<br \/>\nit may<strong>\u00a0resist plot, instead\u00a0<\/strong>being a thing of\u00a0<strong>fragments, glimpses, and moments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SO\u00a0I call for\u00a0\u2018FLASH\u2019 ILLNESS WRITING \u2013\u00a0short-form creative work\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013 which expresses a\u00a0<strong>moment<\/strong>\u00a0or fragment of experience of persistent pain;<br \/>\n\u2013 which takes either the\u00a0<strong>perspectiv<\/strong>e of a person experiencing the pain or the perspective of a witness (carer or healthcare professional);<br \/>\n\u2013 which captures any\u00a0<strong>dimension\u00a0<\/strong>of experience \u2013 physical, emotional, social, economic, institutional, medical, spiritual, or creative;<br \/>\n\u2013 which communicates in\u00a0<strong>any emotional register<\/strong>, positive or negative;<br \/>\n\u2013 and which can be\u00a0<strong>shared\u00a0<\/strong>and used by others to try and communicate the vivid, contradictory, and diverse realities of living with chronic pain.<\/p>\n<p>The brevity of the works produced by our network and their public availability will also make the resource immediately usable by a range of groups: pain charities can use the material in outreach and patient support, medical educators can use the material to enhance student engagement alongside clinical work, people working in healthcare policy can draw on the resource to give rich, humanising detail, and carers and members of the public can draw on the resource to help in understanding the experience of people living with chronic pain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Sara Wasson,\u00a0<em>Translating Chronic Pain: Creative Manifesto<\/em>\u00a0(2017),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/translating-pain\">http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/translating-pain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging from the\u00a0Creative Manifesto,\u00a0I invite submissions\u00a0of\u00a0\u2018FLASH\u2019 ILLNESS WRITING,\u00a0short-form creative work which expresses a moment or fragment of experience of persistent pain; which takes either the perspective of a person experiencing the pain or the perspective of a witness (carer or healthcare professional); 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