Imagined Spaces celebrates essaying as trials, attempts and adventures in thinking in all their creative modes.
New Writing
Imagined Spaces is also a space for new writing.
Taking a line
for a walk
How might we take the books we read, the art in galleries for a walk, let these talk to—even change—how we think about ourselves and the world?
Conversations
We’ve invited writers and artists into a shared digital space of conversations about their recent publications, and have recorded these encounters.
Other Works
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"When Daughters Leave: Essay Writing and the Fugitive Subject" by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low. Writing in Practice 5, 2019.
"In Other Words: an essay about language arranged by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low", New Writing, 2019.
Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low, "Creative Essaying" in Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing, edited by Emma Brankin, Carinya Sharples & Francis Gilbert (Neilson, 2020)
Kirsty Gunn & Gail Low "On the Run" (Writing in Education, NAWE, 2018)
Kirsty Gunn "Essaying in the Old Music Room"
Kirsty Gunn, "Essaying on..."
Kirsty Gunn, "Coming out of Lockdown", (on the literary marketplace)
Folder of students essays on DURA
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DURA youtube channel for Hospitalfield conference
Imagined Spaces YouTube channel
It started as a shopping trolley, gradually evolved to picnic tables, found its own system for social distancing so as to carry on uninterrupted through the COVID-19 pandemic, and continues to fold itself away every day, disappearing into a box to be opened up the next day, again and again. There is no mandate, no agreement, no delegation of this responsibility for opening the park, for laying out the food. No risk assessment, either. The numbers that we fumble with in the dark have a minimal awkwardness….