‘This is my best exorcist impression,’ I tell you with a grimacing grin. I tell you it’s a horror movie to make you laugh. So that you can laugh at the girl controlled by demons. As her head turns full circle on her neck. As her smile screams with silent blasphemy. Because if you don’t… Continue Reading ‘The exorcism of Spasmodic Torticollis’, by Holly Hirst
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She is struggling with the concept of her body as a sensual object. She lifts the covers, brings her feet to meet the floor and winces as she stands. Legs laced with his now buckle as she walks, and shockwaves sparked by his touch are replaced by short-circuiting pain in her nerves. Soft lips, coarse… Continue Reading ‘She is struggling with the concept’, by Lucy Goodwill
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The first publication of the Translating Chronic Pain project is now available. Sara Wasson, ‘Before Narrative: Episodic Reading and Representations of Chronic Pain’, Medical Humanities 43 (5 January 2018): 1-7. Abstract This article suggests that some illness experience may require a reading practice less concerned with narrative coherence or self-authorship, and more interested in the… Continue Reading ‘Before Narrative: Episodic Reading and Representations of Chronic Pain’
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As part of the AHRC-funded project Translating Chronic Pain, we are running a free creative writing workshop in Manchester on Saturday 24 February. I am also delighted to invite submissions of short-form creative writing around the experience of chronic pain, i.e. short works (5-150 words) of prose or poetry, optionally alongside artwork , or comic/sequential art. Please see… Continue Reading Free Creative Writing workshop (Manchester, 24 February); and Call for Creative Work
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We are delighted to be launching this network at the end of July 2017. The first event is going to be a Creative Summit on Saturday 21 October at Lancaster University. This event will bring together people living with chronic pain, representatives of pain charities, medical practitioners, creative writers, and literary scholars. Together, we will… Continue Reading Writing Pain: Creative Summit, Saturday 21st October 2017
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