Writing Cultures Group
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The Writing Cultures Group brings together those engaged in writing practice from across Kingston School of Art.
Combining research activity and knowledge exchange, the group includes poets, literary critics, film scholars, designers, artists, architects, journalists and cultural critics. They are brought together by practice that engages with the cultural and artistic significance of the written word.
Each year, the Writing Cultures Group runs a series of research seminars and networking events designed to create interdisciplinary and collaborative research possibilities. Aiming to redefine the dialogue around writing and explore its creative potential, these events engage with writing in its broadest definition: as text, as symbol, as artwork, and as communication.
With a particular focus on issues of diversity and inclusion, the group recognises, as an explicit part of its mission, the political power of writing, both as a tool of repression and of liberation.
For 2021/22, the theme of the group was para-ability. This includes (but is not limited to) disability, neurodiversity, mental health and chronic illness.
The Writing Cultures Group is the home of Writers' Centre Kingston and supports the activity of Life Narratives Research.
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Kingston upon Thames
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2023-09-20 13:55:14