In which the Apathy Monster is curtailed
Me, lately I spent my PhD years going to many, many conferences. When you’re in a small department in an isolated part of the world, they’re kind of a necessity. You go to meet anyone – ...
First Time for Everything
“Found” Art
I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the use of “found” art, as in re-appropriating images, video, code, etc., in stories. Obviously, in my case, that means digital fiction, though I don’t really think ...
Great Writing 2011
I seem to only do my blog writing on trains lately. Must see to that… I presented at the Great Writing new-and-improved-London-edition conference this weekend, a talk that focused on one of the finer points ...
Posters that don’t involve women draped on cars
Fresh off mid-semester vacation, our New Media Research Circle had a mini-poster session today. I threw together mine based on the method I’m using to take my stories from print to digital, pompously titled “From ...
Muwah-ha-ha-ha…the Labyrinth of the Mind!!!
We all toss around the word ‘interdisciplinary’ like it’s a good thing. “We’re an interdisciplinary department”, “I’m doing interdisciplinary research”, blah blah blah. But when it comes down to it, we often just mean we’ll ...
Retreating to Write
One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of ...
Showcasing the PGs – Totally My Idea
Which I left to more supremely capable people to actually carry out, as is my habit, of course. When I did my MFA, we had a monthly Student Reading Series, which was created during my ...
So That’s What Color Means
I won a coloring contest in the second grade. The item was a lily, and I won not for my extreme crayon skills, but because I was the only one in the class to use ...