j. walsh
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I’m very sad to have turned down the great honour
of a DAAD Artists in Berlin residency. I decided
make my letter of refusal public in solidarity with
@strikegermany
, Professor Nancy Fraser, China Miéville, Eya Giannakopoulou, Jonas_Staal, and with the people of Palestine.
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left-wing twitter is not an 'echo chamber'. it's a support network, a newsfeed beyond a bought & tied media, a contacts and ideas exchange, a hotbed, a prize and a consolation. i am happy to be here. it is also the uk.
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10 yrs ago I first left a bad marriage it took 5 years to unwind. since I've written 10 books published 7 (2 to come binned 1) done a phd run an international literary campaign won a prize slept with women & men fallen in love every year I was single finally loved without falling
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10 years ago i walked out of a crushing marriage & committed to writing
divorce is great-i don't know if i'd still be here without it
and twitter is great-i don't know if i'd have found the confidence to commit without the support i found here
thank you & happy new year :)
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writers who don't have a source of funds to buy time to write must take another job, which can slow work & publication: THIS IS MY PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IF YOUR ARTS OPPORTUNITY HAS AN UPPER AGE LIMIT IT'S PRO-DISCRIMINATION & ANTI-DIVERSITY. LUCKILY THAT'S EASY TO CHANGE :)
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Jean-Luc Godard and his wife, filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville have now disappeared from the Googlemaps streetview image in Rolle, from which Robert Luxemburg made this eerie and beautiful, melancholy short tribute...
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so beckett died as the darkest day of the year made its turn toward the light?
that's so beckett.
Samuel Beckett died in Paris 30 years ago today - 22 December 1989
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This is a great thread celebrating writers who started later. Please use this celebration to ask for change: prizes, residencies etc often specify age-limits that contradict their own diversity guidelines.
Did an MA in Creative Writing at 52, first competition win at 54, novel out at 55, second out at 57 next year and sooooooooo not finished!
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in publishing, as elsewhere, it's better not to take your dreams too seriously, but if i ever had a dream, it was to be published by
@SemiotextePress
and here it is.
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it's HERE: love, travel, chance, breton, boredom, sex, emails, airplanes, puns, beauty, kierkegaard, maths, dreams, freud, trains, tarot, music, spacetime, chatbots, art, heidegger, laffs - out today!
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i often drink on my own in bars and i would like it if more women drank on their own in bars and it was ok for them to talk to each other
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encouragement for older emerging writers is sorely needed but what we need is a change of culture so that all prizes are open to writers at a similar professional stage of development, regardless of age.
there is no reason this change in culture can't happen, and happen easily.
Today we are delighted to launch the
#RSLChristopherBland
Prize aiming to encourage and celebrate older writers
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I'm so extraordinarily sorry that a brutal age cut-off point means that these brilliant under 40s can't be joined by many brilliant writers who find themselves, through no fault of their own, just making it in their early 40s and beyond.
Sarah Perry, Chibundu Onuzo and Deborah Smith are among those appointed to the
@RSLiterature
’s inaugural 40 Fellows under the age of 40 scheme:
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i don't often talk about my personal life on social media: i leave that for my work. today's a rare exception.
i'm very lucky to be on a month's residency at
@cc_irlandais
in Paris. it's gorgeous!
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i was just doctored by
@mckenziewark
& Sophie Robinson. it was almost entirely painless... 🎓🎓🎓
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residency project: pls write me a postcard and i will write you one back from paris: Joanna Walsh, Cité Internationale des Arts, 18 Rue de l'Hôtel de ville, 75004, Paris, France
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Last year's programme was only open to emerging writers under the age of 45, which I (& other writers) highlighted as against
@UNESCO
's own anti-discrimination guidelines. This year's programme is open to emerging writers of ANY AGE. THEY CHANGED IT OMG THEY QUIETLY CHANGED IT!
The Granada Writers in Residence Programme is targeted at emerging writers, residing in any country
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My digital novella, Seed, is published today, free to read online.
Enjoy; my filthy little soul is in this one.
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Dear
@RSLiterature
, an open letter regarding the age guidelines in your recent call for fellowship nominations.
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Can't say who but just been told an arts body has decided to award 'new/emerging' rather than 'young' practitioners!
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every so often this afternoon an unseen guy a few doors down comes into his back garden & shouts, 'for fuck's sake!'
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a while ago I made a mini graphic novel for
@Shakespeare_Co
, and some of the work is now on display at the Paris bookstore in celebration of the centenary of Sylvia Beach's original shop.
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hitting send on a finished draft of my PhD for my supervisors
in birmingham airport all bar one
don't tell me i'm not class
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I get loads of RTs on this subject from 'emerging' writers excluded by age restrictions. That's great, but I (& they) would love to see support from established writers/publishers who know it's just not damn fair. Pls RT if you agree.
Can you justify the age limits on this residency
@KRKCityofLit
? Writers can 'emerge' before the age of 25 and after 45 Please think about altering it before your deadline.
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so, following on from my tweets earlier this week, I wrote this...
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if you're writing anything that hovers around the 'personal essay' you might like to go read Adorno's Essay as Form
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guess what?
Minister
@josephamadigan
has announced the 2020 recipients of the
#MarkieviczAward
, a bursary scheme for artists and writers.
Now in its second year, it commemorates the 100th anniversary of the appointment of the first female cabinet minister, Constance de Markievicz, in 1919.
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reasons writers emerge later include
limited early access to education
care responsibilities
no money to buy time to write
cultural exclusion due to race, gender, sex, class, ethnicity
illness, disability
pls think before supporting age-barred prizes with your expertise/tweets
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can s'one pls talk a bit about age-discrimination in the art world, pls bc i'm already doing it for literature today?
'boundary-pushing' ideas don't only occur under 30. age limits perpetuate the exclusion of those who 'haven't found support' for the ambitions they 'always' had
Are you a London-based creative between the ages of 16 – 30? Do you have boundary-pushing ideas and a drive to create & deliver a new project? Or have you always had ambitions to make something but haven’t found support?
Learn more about our open call:
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Thank you! Let's make a stand against prizes excluding writers who took longer to reach publication through no fault of their own.
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oh apparently my PhD is ready to submit :)
(note from supervisor)
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trying to write an essay/trying to remind myself what a good essay sounds like
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I cannot go on writing this piece about Anais Nin if she continues to autocorrect to "Bin".
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“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”
Deborah Levy quotes Grace Paley
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felt conned when i realised i've been buying the same 26 letters in different combinations on repeat for years...
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"I thought I'd met posh people before... but I'd actually just met people who eat olives."
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i'm delighted to say that my funding body, CHASE, has awarded me a grant to extend this work to create Critical Acts (
@ActsCritical
) a hub for creative-critical practice online with a website at plus...
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they're here! thank you so much for wonderful words of support
@LaurenElkin
@mckenziewark
@zinovievletter
Katherine Angel and Anne Boyer!
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the pieces in this book smash the essay form to bits, then put it together again, beautifully new. I am so pleased and proud to have worked with every one of these writers - get ready!
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I'm sorry to say i have been writing books again.
'My Life as a Godard Movie' will be published in November 2021 by
@Juxta_Press
You can read an extract here
@Coffee_House_
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pls remove the ageist language
@ArtsEmergency
as an ex-mature student, arts practitioner, parent & adult ed teacher, i'm hyperaware of the intersectional factors creating barriers to arts participation for diff age groups
why not be intergenerational, not cheaply ageist?
🛎️
@BigGive
campaign update 🛎️
We're 30% towards our target! If you've already donated - thank you🫶
If you haven't please donate today - your donation will be DOUBLED until 26 March! 🧵
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over the last few years, teaching uni & non-uni classes i realised how many arts opportunities excluded 'older' students.
(sometimes older meant 'over 30')
i found this resulted in lowered expectations and real financial impact, often for those who'd fought longest to be there.
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2019 would be a great year if the Young Writer Prize changed one word and became the New Writer Prize
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i passed my phd with no corrections in this area this year & i'm too old to apply. there is no justification for excluding me & the many others who aren't fortunate enough to finish a phd by their early 30s.
Although this “junior” research programme looks great, the age restriction of 35 is frustrating for those who I was going to forward this to. Why not years out of PhD?
Age ≠ Junior
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had 1st jab (yay!)
over 90% of the volunteer ushers in the health centre were women
when i volunteered in a food bank last year, over 90% of the volunteers were women.
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i'm not at all sure about all this pressure on writers having to respond to what's going on.
it usually takes me between now & 20 years.
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I had the choice between editing something I'm writing and ironing my tote bags.
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super super happy that today
@artscouncil_ie
awarded me a literature bursary to fund research and writing time for my next book.
endlessly grateful for their vital and generous support!
(also today: this bloomed)
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more of a publishing bungalow... 2-4 books a year, hybrid writing. it's what i love reading. i know there's an audience for it. and i have manuscripts from brilliant writers who aren't finding it easy to place books like that.
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is there anything more repulsive than writing an artist statement?
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My Life as a Godard Movie will launch on 18 october!
To celebrate the launch, I'm experimenting with creating an international conversation with some wonderful writers, critics and artists. Info below on how you can watch the conversation unfold.
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This is a list confined to candidates under the age of 39. Great writers, some of my favourites, but if you liked my guardian article about aged barred prizes, ask some tough questions.
THE 2018 LONGLIST - We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's Intl.
@dylanthomprize
in partnership with
@SwanseaUni
longlist. A depth of incredible talent! Which of these young authors will scoop the £30,000 prize in May?
#IDTP18
🔗
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oh, hey, one result of this rant is: an arts organisation planning a 'young' opportunity just dm'd me and...
they're now planning to offer an 'emerging' opportunity instead!
result! 🔥🔥🔥
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It is 5pm. I am sitting in bed fully clothed, drinking Stout and furiously typing an essay about something I realized has been bugging me for a while; this is how I would like to be remembered.
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oh this is the gorgeous new cover of the US edition of My Life As a Godard Movie!
**Cover reveal!** Introducing MY LIFE AS A GODARD MOVIE 💄 coming in September. A stylish book-length essay by Joanna Walsh on beauty and revolution as seen through the films of Jean-Luc Godard, next up in our Undelivered Lectures series.
Cover design by
@annabookdesign
🙏
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just looked up an edition of an arts mag from 2009 & the lineup was 90% cis white guys. most of those guys were writing... on guys. it's easy to forget what was normal such a short time ago & how i ever started writing anything at all.
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one thing you learn quickly at phd level is how to correctly cite your sources
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watch the newgrange solstice sunrise streaming live 8.45am at tomorrow/monday/tuesday...
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wow My Life as a Godard Movie (
@transitbooks
) in
@_catherinelacey
's Top 10 Badly Behaved Biographies
@guardian
alongside Kraus, Howe, Jaggy, Als...
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@ChloeAngyal
(...the irony being that those with caring responsibilities, especially singe mothers and sole carers for other relatives, seldom apply as they can't take the time 'off')
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I'm delighted to say I'll be publishing a book of stories with
@andothertweets
in Sept. A few details here...
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There are many 'old' (over 35!) 1st-time writers who also deserved consideration here:
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most women I know who have young children tell me they 'can't' put aside a big block of time to attend a residency. By the time they can afford the time, they're often 'too old' to be considered.
@badaude
Yes, they must be made aware of the fact, too, that this especially discriminates against women, who are disproportionately made to put their careers and creative lives on hold to care for others during their 20s and 30s.
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Can you justify the age limits on this residency
@KRKCityofLit
? Writers can 'emerge' before the age of 25 and after 45 Please think about altering it before your deadline.
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i've heard of anonymous birthday flowers (it's my birthday on sunday), but someone sent me...
...an anonymous ham
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look what's arrived!
the proof of Autobiology, a book written by an AI version of 'me' that i programmed myself, coming soon from
@incastellated
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It's my birthday and I'll read at
#QueersReadThis
at
@ICALondon
wearing my
#repealthe8th
sweater if I want to
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I am so so very happy to say that this autumn I will have a book out with
@DorothyProject
.
Dorothy's Fall 2015 titles - VERTIGO & THE WEIGHT OF THINGS - will be out on October 1!
http://t.co/6q7hAkLkyk
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writing a long novel set in dublin over the course of a single day, during which a person crosses and recrosses the city in search of a croissant and fancy coffee on a bank holiday monday
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"I say, "make it okay."
Anne Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate.
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I know writers who started 'late' bc of sex, gender, class & race. Age-limited prizes participate in sexism, racism, class discrimination
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Age barriers to awards constitute "an additional barrier to women and minorities, whose publishing careers often take off later". That's Frances Leviston
@LRB
. So much agreement on the problem. When is someone going to act?
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This is all a bit bizarre...
Very proud of Joanna Walsh (
@badaude
) who just won the Arts Foundation Award for creative non-fiction
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if thought, knowledge, adult conversation and vital political action never take into account having and raising children, and the people who do it, there is nothing thoughtful, vital, knowing or adult about them.
I'm a fan of Lucy Ellman but these comments about motherhood are extraordinarily ill-considered. It's ludicrous to suggest that women mentally shutdown when they have a child.
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i'd really like to see a writer who's won a discriminatory age-barred ('under-whatever-age') award, reject it, or at least critique it.
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