Between the Lines
Julia BellCome think with me about attention, writing, language, and the stories that make us who we are.
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The Vibes
In class this week, we’ve been thinking about Raymond Williams’s idea of Structures of Feeling. Or, to put it in a less academic way – the vibes. Williams defines structures of feeling as the emotions that define an era, the things that are...
On Being Cringe
Cringe. Over the first few weeks of term, it’s the word I’ve heard most often from my students when I ask them what they’re most afraid of in their writing. I’m scared of being cringe.
Cringe.
It’s not a new word. In 2020, ContraPoints, N...
Attention!
The word slogan, Ali Smith and Sarah Wood tell us in their 2021 video – Why We Write – comes from the Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, which literally means ‘army cry’ or ‘battle cry’. Apt, for the beginning of an exhibition which takes Simone Weil’s...
(re)launch
I’m late to my own relaunch with this post – blame the oncoming train of the new academic term filling my diary with meetings before I was quite ready, but anyway, I just wanted to write a post to mark the occasion of the re-publication of...
Grace Notes
On Monday, I stood in a sombre crowd and listened to speeches about the life and death of Professor Jason Arday. As someone who has worked my whole life inside the system, I wanted to register my sorrow. One of the speakers says this is a b...
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Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck. Author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Between the Lines: Life Lessons from the Writing Workshop is forthcoming with S&S May '26. Represented by Rebecca Carter Literary.
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