tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5631314678630667662024-02-19T00:19:44.554-08:00Words And WomenWe support women writers living and working in the East of England * Winner of Outstanding Contribution to The Arts Award 2018; Shortlisted for the Women In Publishing New Venture Award 2015 & 2016, for Saboteur Best One-Off Event 2015 and Best Anthology 2014 * Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-59376098590370340712019-01-06T05:45:00.000-08:002019-01-06T05:45:27.949-08:00A Year in Review: We’re taking some time to think. <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuynHwv_-7tyJsrH6vJg5urF0yY0EAs3GVk8eOCtSSDEohR9LnpmtS1d0BxwmC7Cp-IjSAmaWhfxI66IKda4OsHnYy8RynTGpPOiO0sloDZe_e3IsrvTUafic107nD5brSpVXRgmoHXnu4/s1600/P1080944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuynHwv_-7tyJsrH6vJg5urF0yY0EAs3GVk8eOCtSSDEohR9LnpmtS1d0BxwmC7Cp-IjSAmaWhfxI66IKda4OsHnYy8RynTGpPOiO0sloDZe_e3IsrvTUafic107nD5brSpVXRgmoHXnu4/s320/P1080944.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2018 saw us make some fabulous things happen and receive recognition for our work from the <a href="http://www.norfolkartsawards.org/">Norfolk Arts Awards</a>. Our Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award was a wonderful accolade but tinged with sadness too as this year we decided to take a break from many of our activities so we could think about the organisation’s future. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are still thinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In January we announced the winners of our annual prose competition, sponsored by Hosking Houses Trust and Gold Dust. The winner of our national prize this year was Kerry Hood for her eerie story</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">The Sunbathers </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and Margaret Meyer won the regional prize for</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">The Once And Only First Lady Judge, </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">a story written in honour of her grandmother. Kerry and Margaret won cash prizes and their work was published in</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">The Words & Women Compendium</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Words And Women Compendium</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, a brave and vibrant collection <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">of short prose, represents the best of four years of Words and Women’s annual competition showcase anthologies. Click <a href="http://wordsandwomennorwich.blogspot.com/p/compendium-order-one-copy-p-12.html">here</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to buy a copy! We launched the compendium at our International Women’s day celebration at The Book Hive, a great independent bookshop in Norwich. At the launch we also announced that we were going to take our break. If you scroll down to the next blog post you’ll find our statement about this decision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In May we were invited by the Suffolk Book League to talk about our work. The </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; padding: 0cm;">Suffolk Book League is based in Ipswich and our reading took place at their usual venue, the Ipswich Institute, an independent library founded in 1824. We had a full house; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Deborah Arnander, a previous winner of our prose competition, read her story <i>The Wife </i>at the event, and lots </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; padding: 0cm;">of interesting questions were asked about Words & Women and suggestions made about how we might continue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-18479264343080851942018-03-13T03:26:00.000-07:002018-03-13T03:38:59.268-07:00Words And Women is taking a break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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is to imagine but back in 2011, in the dark days, there was nothing much going
on to mark International Women’s Day in Norwich which was why Words and Women
was set up</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We are not for one moment saying it
is down to us, but now there is so much on offer, even South Bank has zoomed in
with WOW – the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Women of the World
Festival - which will take place in the city in April 2018.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It has become a busy field with increased awareness.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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Words and Women is so much more than a local event. We’ve run projects further
afield in other parts of the Eastern region and we have our prose competition
which is open to women writers regionally but also nationally (for women over
the age of 40). Our anthologies have even been sold in Shakespeare & Co in
Paris!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ironically, given this is the year when we celebrate the centenary of the
partial suffrage of women, granting women a voice in society, we have decided
we need to put Words and Women on hold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Women has achieved much over seven years:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We have published
6 books or to put it another way 147 women writers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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distributed £30,000 of prize monies and commissions<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We have raised
money for the charities Leeway, Women for Refugee Women and ECPAT (against
child-trafficking)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We have put on 7
International Women’s Day events, a garden festival and numerous other reading
events around the East of England. These events often involved cross-discipline
work with female theatre directors, comedians, film makers, musicians and
artists, including Karen Reilly from The Neutrinos, Chalk Circle Theatre
Company, Print to The People, Clare Jarrett, Anna Mudeka, Louisa Theobald <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We have presented
a paper at Lit Com: Writing and Communities, we’ve made a short film and have
spoken about our work on T.V. and radio<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We have developed
work for the stage and the page with our Arts Council supported project About,
and we have worked with young girls in schools, and with over 30 women writers from
disadvantaged areas in Norfolk for our Libraries supported project Rural Writes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Writers we have
worked with have gone on to publish their first novels and collections of
stories. We are proud of them but particularly proud of two women from our
Rural Writes project who were new to writing then and are now studying writing
at postgraduate level <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Women is run voluntarily. Basically, the organisation is a two-woman
gig and neither of us get paid for our time. So this last year, we engaged in
an operation to see how we could make Words and Women more sustainable for us. But,
as of yet, we’ve not found a way to secure funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is frustrating that core funding for
activities like ours is so difficult, if not impossible to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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time away to do more thinking and planning and to recoup. Hopefully we will
find a way to continue. It hurts to go dark though. It still feels as if Words
and Women has a role to play in supporting and celebrating women writers and
other women creatives, in creating opportunities on a community and professional
level, in trying to offer public space, and in mixing it up. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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stop too because, well, a woman’s work is never done. Only last week The
Guardian published a letter from 70 women screenwriters deploring the lack of
opportunity for women writers in television drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are living through an extraordinary time
where sexism and inequality is being exposed in every area of life, and yet, if
we really stop to think, the Suffragettes of 100 years ago would probably be
horrified at the lack of progress. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It also hurts
because there is so much still to do to further women’s writing in our
particular way, with warmth, an inclusive ethos, a desire to be exciting and to
expect the best, to reinvent, to be passionate, to give young women
opportunities and to be non-elitist, and to be kind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you
for being with us over the years. We will be celebrating the centenary of
partial suffrage of women with some small but not insignificant projects
(please see the dedicated blog page for further details), and we will be
holding our last reading for the time being on the 3<sup>rd</sup> May in
Ipswich for the Suffolk Book League, so if you are in the area then please come
along to that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So now it is
time to go quiet. As we do so we’d like to thank: our volunteers, our Supporters<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Super Supporters, all of the writers that
have been involved with us one way or the other, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>project funders (Arts Council England, the
Co-Op Community Fund, Norfolk County Council APF), and in no particular order:
Chalk Circle Theatre Company, Mary Muir, Melissa Bell, Guinevere-Glasfurd
Brown, Isabelle King, Leigh Chambers, Anthea Morrison, Anna Brett, Hannah
Walker, Andrew Cowan, Jill Dawson & GoldDust, Sarah Hosking and Hosking
Houses Trust, Mary Muir, Anna Mudeka, Ashley Stokes, Unthank Books, Emma Healey,
The Book Hive, Norfolk Libraries Service, Jan Holden, Print To The People,
Vicki Johnson, Jo Stafford,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chris
Gribble, Sarah Ridgard, Naomi Wood, Emma Claire Sweeney, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Emily Midorikawa, Lilie Ferrari, Charlie Watson, Singular Publishing, Trezza Azzopardi, Heidi Williamson, Clare Jarrett, Louisa Theobald, Karen Reilly and The Neutrinos, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Deborah
Arnander, Leigh Chambers, Rose Cowan, Meghan
Douglas-Ellis, Sophia Egler, Bea Fischer-Harrison, Lucy Ward,</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sophie
Frank, Moyses Gomez, Nadia Greenwood, Adina Levay, Sarah Long,
Gillian McArthur, Lily Meyer, Sofia Moses, Sarah Passingham, Sarah
Poulton, Dani Redd, Beth Settle, Kim Sherwood, Paula
Wolfe, Katherine Simmonds, Tom Collin, Jean Hogg, Jane Harris, Madeleine
Young, Angela Youngman. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-42531577108068800192018-02-27T02:27:00.000-08:002018-02-27T02:27:02.918-08:00Come to our book launch and celebrate International Women's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Words
and Women is excited to announce the launch of their latest publication – a
compendium of this year’s competition winners and the best of five years of
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-84576513170025383632018-01-28T09:11:00.000-08:002018-01-28T09:11:41.254-08:00Working Class Writer<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece by Bel Greenwood, co-organiser of Words And Women, first appeared on the <span style="background-color: white;"> <a href="https://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/article/where-are-all-the-working-class-writers/">Writers Centre Norwich website</a>. It was written in response to a recent </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09fzmjt" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit !important;">BBC Radio 4 programme</a><span style="background-color: white;"> that saw novelist Kit de Waal reflect on her own life and writing career, and the barriers faced by working-class writers today. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I can
remember really looking forward to reading Maggie Ferguson’s biography of
Michael Morpurgo. I wasn’t even going to wait for the paperback version to come
out. I had read his stories to my own child and watched him passionately defend
the human rights of Palestinian children. I admired him, but I felt a familiar
disappointment when yet, again, Michael Morpurgo was revealed to be a former head
boy of a Canterbury public school who lead the late Queen Mother around the
grounds, ex-Sandhurst, and related by marriage to Allen Lane, head of Penguin
Books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can remember thinking, how
typical. Of course, Michael Morpurgo has talent, lots of people have that, but
not everyone has such a route map. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frankly, if you are a working class writer you
really don’t have much of a map at all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am very
conscious of the need to avoid being ‘chippy.’ As if holding any resentment
about inequality is a character flaw and my perception of the publishing
industry as elitist, and poorly representative of where I come from isn’t valid.
But it is now being acknowledged by the publishing industry itself that working
class writers and stories are missing and some in the industry want to remove
the barriers to writers from my kind of background. Hence BBC Radio 4’s
documentary, ‘Where are all the Working Class Writers?’ A passionate, personal
take by Kit de Waal, who published her first book at the age of 55. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it so
different for someone like me and someone like Michael Morpurgo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plenty of middle class people refuse to
accept that there is any difference. But of course, there is. It isn’t only financial
hardship, lack of time or a writing shed that gets in the way. It’s confidence,
self-belief, having a face that fits, a happy sense of entitlement, adopting a
way of speaking that is taken more seriously. Learning the alien skill of a
networking session, finding a sense of belonging without any idea of the codes
that tie people together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was born
into a large family at the back of the old Arsenal Football Stadium in London. When
I was five my father ran away. I don’t think he managed a single maintenance
payment and my mother was left pregnant with her fifth child, on benefits in
the late 1960s. It was tough, and we were very poor. I can remember us all
sitting round making pyjama trouser strings in the front room and was often
kept off school to help with the washing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother remarried a milkman with itchy feet and
we moved 14 times in 12 years. I went to 8 schools, in secondhand shoes and on free
school meals, we were easy fodder for bullies. Years later, a wealthy friend,
son of lawyers, asked me why life was always a battle. No one where I grew up
would think to ask that question.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having been
at comprehensives and a secondary modern, I ended up at a grammar school where
the headmistress asked me if my father drank, after all he is working class, he
is also teetotal except at Christmas. I was one of two working class pupils in
the sixth form and became a Communist and played truant in response. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In those
years, I can remember visiting the home of an artist whose work resembled
Modigliani. I pointed this out, and she responded, ‘Oh, you know who Modigliani
is?’ She couldn’t believe that someone like me would know about an
Italian-Jewish 19<sup>th</sup> century artist who lived in France. I couldn’t
help thinking, why shouldn’t I know as much as anyone else. Thank Goodness for
public libraries, my gateway into a bigger world where art could belong to
anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why am I
writing this? Because the perceptions and expectations of others feed the
perception and expectations of ourselves. My mother’s ambition was for me to
work in Woolworths. It took me years to get to university, the first generation
in my family to do so. Even then I did it as a single parent in a city of
strangers, excited but unsure how to belong, and frankly, without Arts and
Humanities Research Board funding of my MA, it simply wouldn’t have happened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful for that support and aware of what
a rare chance I have been given. But it’s still hard not to feel like an
imposter. In my early adult life, I spent years listening to intellectual bores
who I was convinced must be more right than me because of their class.
Thankfully, I have outgrown that – but the shuttle diplomacy between my working
class origins, and the middle class world of publishing continues in an
atmosphere of self-doubt and hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
more than ever we need to tell the right stories and I believe we need a range
of voices to do the telling, anything less will only ever give us a dangerously
partial view.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-59327399159663612182018-01-08T00:53:00.002-08:002018-01-08T00:53:46.905-08:00Kerry Hood and Margaret Meyer, the winners of our prose competition!<div class="MsoBodyText2">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations
to <b>Kerry Hood</b> who has won our national prize for women writers over 40 in our
prose competition this year and <b>Margaret Meyer</b> who has won our regional prize
for women writers living and working in the East of England. Kerry won for her fantastic story <i>The Sunbathers</i>, and Margaret won for <i>The Once And Only First Lady Judge</i>, a
story written in honour of her grandmother.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcVpffNAFCK72CZHbEGTua7ty5aLrb_FQiW1m560CAzSs128mUy7u6nFV2QXuI-GTpmLrXDVBYcEwZyzWPtF1jLjv8j2Zzru_qOUSd6_sgLzNq7l8EhtpTqpS31f8wvTZ0flTzt38TtKXx/s1600/KerryHood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="573" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcVpffNAFCK72CZHbEGTua7ty5aLrb_FQiW1m560CAzSs128mUy7u6nFV2QXuI-GTpmLrXDVBYcEwZyzWPtF1jLjv8j2Zzru_qOUSd6_sgLzNq7l8EhtpTqpS31f8wvTZ0flTzt38TtKXx/s200/KerryHood.jpg" width="178" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kerry</b>’s story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TXL</i> was runner-up in the Bridport Prize
for which she’s been shortlisted five times. She won the Cinnamon Press Award,
Ink Tears Flash Fiction, and Frome Short Story Prize as well as being published
by the Bristol Prize, The New Writer and Bath Flash Fiction. Two stories have
been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She
has had ten plays produced including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Meeting
Myself Coming Back</i> at Soho Theatre (British Theatre Guide Highlight of the
Year, Sunday Times Critics’ Choice, shortlisted for Meyer-Whitworth Award),
received several Arts Council awards and has had residencies at the National
Theatre, the Traverse and RADA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0L_Hqn-bb-YRmniFfpUGPfxir93FCLirsgzPX2b9mnEeI_DISLYliVTtS_7Ummn6YgpDWILp_W7JSBGaum4MFLPypxMtU8nv9UIHoHdFPyK8Fjfp5-mpNk-t0x238OP4g9zmODD2Ji_I/s1600/MMeyer+Hi+Res+Main+Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1108" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0L_Hqn-bb-YRmniFfpUGPfxir93FCLirsgzPX2b9mnEeI_DISLYliVTtS_7Ummn6YgpDWILp_W7JSBGaum4MFLPypxMtU8nv9UIHoHdFPyK8Fjfp5-mpNk-t0x238OP4g9zmODD2Ji_I/s200/MMeyer+Hi+Res+Main+Pic.jpg" width="138" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Margaret </b>is a prose writer and
therapist. She has previously been a fiction editor, publisher, British Council
Director of Literature and a reader-in-residence in Norfolk prisons. As a
therapeutic arts practitioner she provides writing and reading-for-wellbeing
programmes for ex-offenders, recovering addicts, and people recovering from
mental health conditions. In 2016 she won a place on the Escalator writer
development scheme run by Writers’ Centre Norwich. In 2017 she was awarded an
Arts Council England grant towards her first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Varieties of Flight. </i>She writes about women, water, metaphor,
criminality and not knowing. <span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kerry
wins <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">£1,000 and a month long writing retreat, </span><span style="color: black;">generously sponsored by Hosking Houses Trust, and Margaret wins £600 and
a mentoring session with Jill Dawson of Gold Dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both will have their work published </span><span style="color: black;">in our forthcoming
anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Words And Women Compendium </i>which
will be launched at our International Women’s Day celebration in Norwich in
March. (We will release more details about our celebration at the end of this
month.)</span> <span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Our guest judges for this year were </span><span style="color: black;">Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire
Sweeney, authors of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/www\.amazon\.co\.uk\/Secret-Sisterhood-Hidden-Friendships-Austen-x\/dp\/1781315949\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495757930&sr=8-1&keywords=a+secret+sisterhood\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: text1;">A Secret Sisterhood: The
hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Woolf</span></span></span></i></span><span style="color: black;">. All entries were judged anonymously and the unveiling of the names of
the winning writers at the end of the process was very exciting! Here are the
judges’ thoughts about the winning stories:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'The Sunbathers</i> stands
out immediately as ambitious and distinctive, expanding the possibilities
of the short-story form. It takes a virtuoso approach to narrative
perspective, expertly sustaining complex craft techniques, and
its layers of symbolism make this a story that
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'The Once and Only First Lady Judge </i>is richly imagined, with an important message
at its core. The characters engaged us on a deep, emotional
level, and the story lingered in our minds long after we had stopped reading.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Words
And Women would like to say thank you to everybody who entered the competition.
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-79963820320661738202018-01-03T01:11:00.001-08:002018-01-03T01:11:27.292-08:00Prose Competition: our Top 40!<div class="MsoNormal">
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We open this year with news of our prose competition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;">On Monday 8<sup>th</sup> January we will announce
the winner of our national prize of £1,000 and a month long writing retreat, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">generously sponsored by <a href="https://hoskinghouses.co.uk/wp/">Hosking Houses Trust</a>, and the winner of our East
of England prize of £600 and a mentoring session with Jill Dawson of <a href="http://gold-dust.org.uk/">Gold Dust</a>.
The winners will have been selected by our guest judges </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, authors of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/www\.amazon\.co\.uk\/Secret-Sisterhood-Hidden-Friendships-Austen-x\/dp\/1781315949\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495757930&sr=8-1&keywords=a+secret+sisterhood\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><a href="https://somethingrhymed.com/">A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf</a></span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;">Meanwhile we thought we’d continue our tradition of
announcing our Top 40 here first. Congratulations to all of you who made it to
this stage! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;">And very many thanks to all of you who entered. We had over
350 entries from all over the UK and Ireland, from Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester,
Bristol, Canterbury, Norwich, Cambridge and many other cities, towns and
villages. There was a good strong mix of fiction and non, many interesting
essays and strong memoir pieces. Themes explored were as varied, ranging from work
in praise of the natural world (from Barn Owls to soil!), from writers and
writing to film-makers and performers, from trafficked women to abandoned
children, from drownings and rescues to grief. There were gently humourous
pieces about relationships and more acerbic, surreal pieces too. The work which
made its way into our Top 40 successfully explores the unusual or the familiar
in an unfamiliar way. We were drawn to interesting content, developed argument
and narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We liked language that
conjured an atmosphere. We liked neat structures and experimental structures.
Mostly we chose work which displays confidence and energy, commitment and a
real understanding of form. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Our Top 40</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each
of Us Drowning at Sea</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Fiction - Yvonne
Battle-Felton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Si’s Chair – Fiction -
Debbie Bayne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where
were you? – Non-fiction - <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bibi Berki</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">End of Term – Fiction - <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Pippa Brush Chappell<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And
We Grew So Old – Fiction - Selma Carvalho <span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From
the Soil – Non-fiction - Lucy Cash <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glasshouse
– Fiction - <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Philipa
Coughlan</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Havoc Shore – Fiction – Maureen Cullen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting Shit On – Non-fiction - <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Niamh Curran </span> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Story Of The Good Little Girl Who Did Not Prosper </span>– Fiction - <span lang="EN-US">M. J. Doyle
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Gift – Fiction - <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jennie Ensor</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every
Living Thing – Non-fiction - Sally Kerry Fox<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Molly Lovelace – Fiction - Ledlowe Guthrie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Sunbathers –
Fiction – Kerry Hood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absinthe – Fiction -
Janet Howcroft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Other Side – Fiction -
Hedy Howe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Newman Eyes – Fiction –
Kate Jefford <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That Something of
Me - Non-fiction
- <span lang="EN-US">Ingrid Jendrzejewski </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crane – Fiction - Avril Joy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebald and standing in the kitchen at a party – Non-fiction
- <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Alice Kent</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life Buoy – Non-fiction - Kate Malcolm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Going Nowhere Roads – Fiction - Maire
Malone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F’s
Fir Fingers – Fiction - <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Margot McCuaig <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four Days of Dying – Non-fiction - Kirstin McKie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Once and Only First Lady Judge – Fiction - <span class="apple-style-span">Margaret Meyer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon Return – Fiction - <span lang="EN-US">Carmen Morawski
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dress
rehearsal – Fiction - Hannah Persaud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Age
of Reason – Fiction - Anne Rabbitt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loving
Icarus – Fiction - Alex Reece Abbott <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We Begin In Many Ways - Non-fiction -
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kindred
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting Rooms – Non-fiction -
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-45188682244114112892017-12-20T13:07:00.000-08:002017-12-20T13:07:01.994-08:00Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-4715748765765043192017-12-10T05:17:00.000-08:002017-12-10T05:17:30.428-08:00Long time, long view: thoughts on finishing a first collection of poems<div class="MsoNormal">
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my debut pamphlet </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Other Animals <i>(HappenStance 2017).</i></span></div>
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years. The poems took shape alongside my life as a teacher in the US and my
return to Britain some years later. The pamphlet is a celebration of encounters
with the natural world. It’s also a reckoning with childlessness and a reconciliation
with my body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Writing the pamphlet was a lesson in the art
of the long haul. I kept leaving things out of the poems. I kept leaving myself
out of my body. It was only when I came back to Britain and began to reunite
with landscapes I’d known from childhood that I was able to write about the
experience of reproductive illness and accept its realities. I’m still learning
the influence and solace of these formative places. Returning here allowed me
to complete the manuscript – a psychological completion, really, more than a
page count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’m indebted to the kind directness of my
editor (lovely Nell at HappenStance) in telling me to include the more
difficult and cantankerous of these body poems in the pamphlet – I’d been
afraid of having written them, for what they revealed about my own physicality.
The poems seemed more embodied, less cautious about life, than I was. But
they’re also poems about how we name what happens to us, and about whose words we
fight with along the way, and it was this rationale that persuaded me to let
them in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While I was living in Pittsburgh – a city I’d
felt adopted by and in which some of the poems are set – often, at my desk or
before sleep, my mind would flood with images from home: the Wash and its
expanses. Cut fields and a line of trees. Sixteen hours of daylight at the end
of May. The birds and insects that belong with those long days. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like Other Animals</i> is, I think, the
outcome of a decision to return here. Begun in one country and revised by
another. For anyone reading it, especially if she is an East Anglian writer, I
hope its visual geography will resonate and that the lines will be good
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you’d like to hear more in 2018, Lois will
be reading at Saltmarsh Poets on 2 April and in Ipswich on 3 May. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like Other Animals</i> is available from <a href="https://www.happenstancepress.com/">HappenStancePress</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lois Williams grew up on Britain's Wash coast and spent
many years abroad teaching as a university lecturer and visiting poet in the
USA. </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Like Other Animals, </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">her debut poetry pamphlet from
HappenStance Press, was published in 2017. Lois's poems and essays have
appeared in </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Words and Women: One, Verse Daily, New England Review, The
Rotary Dial, Antiphon, Mslexia</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Granta.</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Her
work has been recognised with residencies from the Charles Pick Fellowship and
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-12073771307986430832017-11-24T08:19:00.000-08:002017-11-24T08:19:13.847-08:00Animating Hysterical Females: Marking the centenary of women’s suffrage <div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">by multi-media artist </span><a href="http://www.tracysatchwill.com/" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tracy Satchwill</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Film still from <i>Hysterical Females</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">'In 2018,
we will be marking the centenary of women’s suffrage. As an artist with a
passion for women’s history I wanted to create a film to commemorate the 100<sup>th</sup>
year anniversary. The majority of us know about the history of suffragettes:
the force-feeding, the protests, the breaking of windows, so I wanted to look
at it from a different angle, focusing on the core of the problem which was the
men’s behaviour towards women. This led me to look at the discrimination
against Edwardian women in general, starting from girlhood. Why were young
girls’ encouraged to suppress their ambitions? Why was marriage the only
vocation for women? Why was self-sacrifice in women deemed a biological duty?
Why didn’t politicians take women seriously? I wanted to communicate some of
these obstacles in my film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">My
interest in moving image was sparked last year whilst watching Rachel Maclean’s
video <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feed Me</i> at the British Art Show
in Norwich. The film was visually inviting and attractive however addressed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘uncomfortable subject matter’</i> (British
Art Show 2015) such as the sexualisation of children and infantile behaviour of
adults. I realised elements of Maclean’s work could be applied to my own. I also
recognised that in moving image I could communicate much more information about
a narrative: being an audio, optic and tactile stimuli to the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">For the
project I gained a deep understanding of Edwardian women by reviewing personal
letters, scrapbooks, biographies and documents, gathered by historians,
feminists and sociologists. I found <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girls
growing up in Victorian and Edwardian England</i> a valuable resource for an
insight into the expectations of girls in the home, and as adults, and for
understanding the foundations of our contemporary society (Dyhouse, 1981).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">Whilst
researching British women’s history I felt angered, inspired and enlightened, driven
to inform my audience about the fight for women’s freedom and independence and encourage
discourse around the topics of gender, identity and society. In today’s culture
these subjects are important to address at a time when the feminist perspective
is abandoned by many young women as ‘unpalatable’ due to the ‘vilification and
negation’ of the topic (McRobbie, 2009 p.1). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Film still from <i>Hysterical Females</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the
film I focused on the perceptions and experiences of people rather than factual
events, looking at feelings and emotions. I felt it could be difficult and
tedious to translate historical information creatively whilst keeping the facts
accurate. I approached the subject in a non-literal way, creating an aesthetic
surreal world, which communicated historical behaviours, attitudes and beliefs.
I looked at the different perspectives of Edwardian women from the viewpoint of
the politician, suffragette, anti-suffragist and husband. In the final film I
represented these characters as playful and theatrical, which would attract a
broader audience and the playful element would engage attention more
effectively than bare facts, drawing from the works of Rachel Maclean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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young, curious but naïve woman called Esther who explores a visually inviting
but uncomfortable world where there’s a struggle between power and freedom. In
this domineering patriarchal society women are treated as victims and
represented as automated, unconscious and desired objects. Men are the
masterful creators and women dismembered, punched and severed art objects. The
protagonist is a living doll, a fusion between a toy and a young woman (Walter
2010, p2), converted into an uncanny animated lifeless object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disturbing anti-utopian society is part
reality and part fantasy, with the narrative being both disruptive and
disjointed, with an emergence of the relevance and irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Film still from <i>Hysterical Females</i></td></tr>
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<span style="background: #FBFBFB; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">A rebellion, a radical change is
required to overcome and deconstruct the oppositions and boundaries of
patriarchal thought. The appearance of an angel signifies entering another
world. Her function is of prophecy, communication and guidance (Allmer 2009,
p.12). She is a suffragette, a savour of the women of today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">Collage was
the main medium used in the film, which corresponded to the popular women’s
pastime of the Victorian era, combined with the techniques of stop motion, live
action and animation, and the use of disjointed sounds, music and dialogue,
aiming to create a powerful emotive piece. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
creation of my first film has been an enjoyable experience with the aim to
inspire the audience to find out more about women’s history and it’s importance
in our society today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">To watch the film, please click on the link below and use the password for access.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/229264313"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://vimeo.com/229264313</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">(password
epankhurst)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">My next
project is a short video that urges women to embrace imperfections, expect less
of themselves and focus on what they care about. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not Enough Time</i> is communicated through cuttings from contemporary
magazines, which puts pressure on women to live up to unrealistic expectations. '<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Film still from <i>Not Enough Time</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tracy
Satchwill is a multi-media artist working in animation, film, sound and graphic
art. She is open to collaboration with writers, musicians and community groups.
For further information visit: www.tracysatchwill.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">References</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Allmer, P. (2009) <em><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Angels
of anarchy: women artists and surrealism.</span></em> Munich; London:
Prestel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">British Art Show 8, (2015) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rachel Maclean</i> [Internet] Available at:
<http://britishartshow8.com/artists/rachel-maclean-1509> [Accessed August
2016]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dyhouse, C. (1981)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Girls Growing up in Victorian and Edwardian England.</span></i> <span style="background: white;">Routledge & Kegan Paul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">McRobbie, A., (2009) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change</i>. London: Sage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Twells, A.
(2007), </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">British Women’s History: A
documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War I</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">, London: I. B. Tauris.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Walter, N., (2010) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living
Doll: The Return of Sexism</i>. London: Virago Press.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-68563211848318878472017-11-17T01:19:00.001-08:002017-11-17T01:19:41.381-08:00Our prose competition has now closed for entries<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to everybody who sent in their work. We have had over 300 entries of short prose, fiction and non-fiction, from all over the country. We will announce our top 40 here in the first week of January 2018 and then our national and regional winners will be announced a few days after that! Meanwhile we will be busy reading the scripts along with our guest judges Emily<span style="background-color: white;"> Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, the authors of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Sisterhood-Hidden-Friendships-Austen-x/dp/1781315949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495757930&sr=8-1&keywords=a+secret+sisterhood" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Woolf</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span>Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-62394965458682378162017-10-15T01:13:00.001-07:002017-10-15T01:13:48.086-07:00Winning last year's Words And Women’s prose competition<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica;">Our annual prose competition is open for entries until
the 15<sup>th</sup> November. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Click <a href="http://bit.ly/2bNIoWK">here </a>for submission
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">There are two major prizes on offer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">: the
East of England Prize and our National Prize </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">for Women
Writers over the age of 40.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">The national award, generously sponsored by Hosking Houses Trust, offers
women over the age of 40 the opportunity to win £1,000 and up to a month-long
writing retreat at Church Cottage near Stratford-upon-Avon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The East of England prize offers the winner £600 and a mentoring session
with Jill Dawson of Gold Dust.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div>
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year’s competition with her short story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Wife</i>, which opens a window on her time in Church Cottage. If you’d like to
read up on what it means to win the regional prize then click on April in our
blog archive and winner Melissa Fu will give you the low-down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">A House of
One’s Own,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Deborah
Arnander</span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(C) Deborah Arnander</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In Church
Cottage, the Hosking Houses Trust provides the lucky resident with more than a
room: with, in fact, a House of One’s Own, to quote the title of Janet
Malcolm’s wonderful essay on Bloomsbury and the ‘spirit of industry’ that still
resides in houses like Charleston.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">These
places speak, Malcolm says, ‘of the values by which Chekov’s good characters
are ruled: patient, habitual work and sensible, calm behavior.’</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That spirit rules in this place too.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You cannot fail to feel its benevolent
influence.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The cottage has been appointed with
great thoughtfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a huge
enamel bath, a comfy bed, a proper writing chair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A well-stocked bookcase includes works by many
of the impressive women who have been here before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The River Stour is at the bottom of the lane,
and the resident has use of a reputedly unsinkable white boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clifford Chambers is a pretty village built
around a cul-de-sac, with an interesting church, some beautiful old houses, and
a Manor that reminded me of Tintin’s Marlinspike Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a walkable two miles from
Stratford-upon-Avon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night, there is
total silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church bells ring the
hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I worried before I came that I might balk at the
change to my routines, that I might even miss the perverse satisfaction of stealing
time out of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the cottage
works its magic, and in the time I’ve been here, I’ve found myself unwilling even
to turn on the radio. I knew it would be an age before I got another chance to
be so single-minded about my work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let
the outside world recede.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the
whole day to dive down.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(C) Deborah Arnander</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I brought my most recent notebooks
with me, and some print-outs of my semi-abandoned novel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to work on the novel first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the absence of other distractions, I
managed to rewrite the first four chapters in a way that gives me hope: it’s
much closer to the point-of-view character now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve always known that there are major problems with the plot; I’ve had
some ideas about what I need to do to fix that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve also been thinking for
some time about a book of interconnected short stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the Cottage I started to wonder what that
might look like: there would need to be enough variation, for example, in the
ages or life stages of the protagonists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sketched out half a dozen potential stories centred on a particular
theme, and started composing one of them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have always found it difficult to see my
work as a whole, rather than the few sentences or pages I’m working on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now I realize that a less fragmented day,
with no other responsibilities, makes that wider view possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">There are several books at the cottage by one of
the Trust’s patrons, Tracey Emin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Speaking of the inspiration for her ‘Lonely Chair’ drawings, she told an
interviewer: ‘When I’m in my house in France, I’m really, really happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel at one with something and at peace
with something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spend a lot of time on
my own there and I spend a lot of time sitting in a chair thinking.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those words have been echoing inside me all
the time that I’ve been here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Encouraging surroundings, time for uninterrupted thought, and perhaps
especially, solitude: these things are essential for a writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so grateful to the Hosking Houses Trust,
and to Words and Women, for running the competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Deborah
was born in Northumberland but spent her childhood in Thailand. She has a PhD in French literature, and works
as a translator. She won an Escalator
award in 2010, when she began her first, soon to be completed novel, <i>The Cinderella Watch</i>, which was
shortlisted in 2014’s TLC/PEN Factor competition. She has published stories in <i>Unthology One </i>and <i>Words and Women One, </i><i>Three </i>and<i> Four</i>,
all with Unthank Books, and poetry in the webzine <i>Ink, Sweat and Tears</i>. She is
married with two children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-20983335746285865502017-09-04T13:19:00.002-07:002017-09-22T07:57:21.053-07:00Our prose competition launches!<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">Our annual prose competition launches today with </span><span style="color: black;">two major prizes: the East of England Prize and our National Prize </span><span style="color: black;">for Women Writers over the age of 40.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(c) Rosalind Hobley</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">This is the fifth year our competition’s been running
and this year we’re proud to announce that we don’t have </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">one guest judge but two! </span><span style="color: black;">Emily Midorikawa
and Emma Claire Sweeney are the authors of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Sisterhood-Hidden-Friendships-Austen-x/dp/1781315949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495757930&sr=8-1&keywords=a+secret+sisterhood"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">A
Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Woolf</span></a>.
They also co-run<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://somethingrhymed.com/about/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">SomethingRhymed.com</span></a>, a
website that celebrates female literary friendship. They’ve written for the
likes of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Guardian</i>, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Independent on Sunday<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Times</i>. Emily is a winner of
the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Emma is author of the award-winning novel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Dawn-Emma-Claire-Sweeney/dp/1785079670/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496768728&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=owl+song+at+dawn"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Owl
Song at Dawn</span></i></a>, and they both teach at New York University,
London.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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looking </span><span style="color: black;">for compelling voices from the entries, ‘voices that combine
a sensitivity to the musicality of language with a story that holds the
reader's attention from beginning to end. Narratives that are nuanced, complex
and unusual will make us sit up and take note.’<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The national award, generously sponsored by Hosking Houses Trust, offers
women over the age of 40 the opportunity to win £1,000 and up to a month-long
writing retreat at Church Cottage near Stratford-upon-Avon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The East of England prize offers the winner £600 and a mentoring session
with Jill Dawson of Gold Dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both national and regional winners will be published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Words And Women Compendium</i> which
will be launched on International Women’s Day, 8<sup>th</sup> March, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They will also have the opportunity to read at this event too.</span></span></div>
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be 2,200 words or under.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fiction in any
genre, memoir, life-writing, essays and creative non-fiction on any theme are
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is open for entries from the 5<sup>th</sup> September and the deadline for
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Our prose competition is open for entries. £1600 in prizes sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/HoskingTrust">@HoskingTrust</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldDustwriters">@GoldDustwriters</a> <a href="https://t.co/ys1gtUHhqS">https://t.co/ys1gtUHhqS</a> <a href="https://t.co/7p0nAjKQ9p">pic.twitter.com/7p0nAjKQ9p</a></div>
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year. We will release news of these in the forthcoming months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5<sup>th</sup> September we will be launching our
annual prose competition with prizes worth over £1,600. Our guest judges are <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Emma Claire
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These words appear on a sheer white panel of polyester chiffon, which
forms the focal point of a textile installation by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jamie-lee Linnitt and Evangeline Dauber</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> created to raise awareness of
domestic abuse. Linnitt and Dauber are studying for the BA in Illustration at
Norwich University of the Arts and they began to collaborate in their final year on the course, and
together have produced a final piece which is brave, beautiful,
carefully-considered and sensitive.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How to deal with disturbing subject matter, how to intrigue and draw
people in and not have them turn away, how not to sensationalise or trivialise?
These are questions that preoccupied the artists, known collectively as SHE
KNOWS, as they began to shape the installation.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bravely they chose to tackle the subject of domestic abuse by using that
most domestic of materials – the textile. Also the most feminine of materials. Linnitt
and Dauber knew they wanted to created a work which would be immersive, which
viewers could walk through and round, which would lead the viewer in.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They wanted the work to be soft and beautiful
to look at, in order to wrong-foot the viewer just as the abuser often wrong-foots
the abused.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The installation is comprised of four large panels with two smaller
panels sandwiched between. At the rear, is the single white panel with the
three words. The large panels are </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">made of silk
habotai, hand-painted with procion dye.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The marks, made by squidgies and brushes,
are in purple and red</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the colour of bruising. The smaller
panels, made from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">silk viscose satin, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">are a deep red, patchy
and various as fibres have been removed</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> using a
process called devoré. No figurative images but instead abstract, suggestive
patterning. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The panels are hung together in a way which echoes a family grouping. The
larger panels hang from near invisible strings, so they float and have something
shroud-like and ghostly about them. They
twist and turn as people pass as if they are twisting and turning from
the viewer as if shy or frightened. The panels have the fluidity of skirts, of
dresses, and remind the viewer of the female, the feminine.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The panels are in a symmetrical arrangement of twos with an aisle
leading through the centre. So another association is made; this time with the
banners which line either side of an aisle in a Christian church. From this it
doesn’t take much to make a link too with weddings, with walking up the aisle
to be married. Except there isn’t a priest at the altar but those three powerful
words.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Linnitt and Dauber say they selected the words for the alliteration, but
also that they convey the tactics an abuser may employ. Coerce, Control,
Constraint. To the viewer too the words bring coolness. This is the language of
academic studies, of the official document, legal papers, the police force. The
font chosen is called </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘cocogoose’ and it is in bold. It
was chosen for its clarity and because visually it suggests intensity and
restriction. The text contrasts sharply
with the softness of the text-ile.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Three words. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Perhaps the most famous three words in the
English language are I Love You and often, sadly, these can be the precursor to
domestic abuse.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These artists are working in the tradition of Barbara Kruger (feminist
slogans), Tracey Emin (fascination with words and textile), Louise Bourgeois (preoccupation
with the body, pain, the textile and words).</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The installation can be seen at the Norwich University of the Arts degree
show, opening on the 27<sup>th</sup> June. </span><a href="http://www.nua.ac.uk/visit/degreeshows/"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">http://www.nua.ac.uk/visit/degreeshows/</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Accompanying the installation are information packs containing
statistics about domestic abuse, contact numbers for help etc. These young
women have considered everything, and should be applauded for creating a work
which resonates.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jamie-lee Linnitt and Evangeline Dauber</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> as SHE KNOWS plan to
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">sell artwork in order to raise money for selected
charities. They also plan to hold their own exhibitions in the near future.
Keep an eye out for their updates at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">skcollective0.wixsite.com/sk-co-, or via Instagram,
@sk_co_. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If anybody would like to talk to them about
their work please contact at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:sk.collective@hotmail.com"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">sk.collective@hotmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, or use the 'Contact' page on
their website.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jamie-lee Linnitt is 24 and currently living
in Attleborough. Since rediscovering her love of textiles in the last year or
so, it has become her main approach to creating work. Her dissertation focused
on how effective the use of textiles is when communicating Feminist theories.
Feminism is integral to her work and she is interested in all aspects, from
body positivity to the treatment of women in varying cultures.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Evangeline Rose Dauber is originally from
Lincoln, but has been living in Norwich for the past few years studying
Illustration. Her personal practice focuses on female empowerment and
challenges the equality between genders. She likes to work mainly in pink and
blue to push the stereotype of male and female expectations. Having only just
found her feet in textile design, she has a lot more to give and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">can’t wait to get started on further
projects!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1 in 4 women in England and
Wales will experience domestic violence in their lifetimes and 8% will suffer
domestic violence in any given year (Crime Survey of England and Wales,
2013/14)</span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Globally, 1 in 3 women will
experience violence at the hands of a male partner (State of the World’s
Fathers Report, MenCare, 2015)</span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Domestic violence has a
higher rate of repeat victimisation than any other crime (Home Office, July
2002)</span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Every minute police in the
UK receive a domestic assistance call – yet only 35% of domestic violence
incidents are reported to the police (Stanko, 2000 & Home Office, 2002)</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">The 2001/02 British Crime Survey (BCS) found that there were an
estimated 635,000 incidents of domestic violence in England and Wales. 81% of
the victims were women and 19% were men. Domestic violence incidents also made
up nearly 22% of all violent incidents reported by participants in the BCS
(Home Office, July 2002)</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For help and advice about domestic violence please contact:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -100.9pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><a href="https://www.womensaid.org.uk/"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://www.womensaid.org.uk</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><a href="https://www.leewaysupport.org/"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://www.leewaysupport.org</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -100.9pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -100.9pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of our IWD event in Norwich City Centre.</span></div>
Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-70185230743965520582017-05-24T07:14:00.000-07:002017-05-24T07:14:11.798-07:00Lijia Zhang on her novel Lotus: part 3 – Chinese Society <div class="MsoNormal">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfghyphenhyphenaX7gcNfPN3bC6q6IY_ak3_JQkieii5r6kLgp4wMo83GL0bPDeN0bBnEF4OT5IGDjrYwxfflNZbhLrB5LUKvwC2E5P2OjzzYseAyEHRAc7ODxCfKy81VMd1d210TZjxRLEO-BO9Fy/s1600/30078655.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfghyphenhyphenaX7gcNfPN3bC6q6IY_ak3_JQkieii5r6kLgp4wMo83GL0bPDeN0bBnEF4OT5IGDjrYwxfflNZbhLrB5LUKvwC2E5P2OjzzYseAyEHRAc7ODxCfKy81VMd1d210TZjxRLEO-BO9Fy/s320/30078655.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">Below is Part Three of </span><a href="https://zhendegender.com/"><span style="color: #771100; font-size: 11pt;">zhendegender</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #771100; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘s interview with Lijia Zhang about her first novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lotus </i></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"> which centres on a young
migrant woman eager to escape her life as a prostitute in China.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: no;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does your novel
convey about greater Chinese society, or about societies in general?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every society has prostitution. There is a saying in China: once
you have food and clothing you start thinking about sex.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Society has become hedonistic after Mao’s regime of sexual purity and
sexual repression. China has become materialistic, restless. Other reasons for
the growing sex industry include growing wealth, relaxed social control and the
resulting growth in individual personal freedom. Plus of course, China’s
population is increasingly mobile. Young migrant workers often can’t bring
their wives with them or establish a relationship. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prostitutes are real people, and I wanted to expose that. They<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> are not always
sexually appealing</span>, but they know all the tricks of how to flirt and
attract men. T<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">he oldest sex worker I met was a woman in her middle 60s.</span> <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Another middle-aged
sex worker had a grown-up<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span>daughter
who was married. Some women really get stuck in the trade and cannot get out. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Like any job,
there are drawbacks. But their lives are not totally bleak either.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When she becomes a
prostitute, Lotus has no idea about sexual health. Her clients pay more for sex
without a condom, and one man even washes out an expensive “Golden Gun – Never
Flops” condom for later use.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What
are the pervasive attitudes and challenges to sex education?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The legislation states sexual education should be taught in
schools, but it is not compulsory and it is not enforced. It is not on the
government’s list of priorities. There aren’t calls from the public for sexual
education but there are non-governmental organisations providing information on
a wide range of things, from HIV/Aids clinics to promoting openness about
sexuality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">any </span>prostitutes are not educated about sexual health. Their
bosses often tell them that it is ok not to use a condom, because they get more
money that way. They will say, “it looks clean” and agree to sex without a
condom. Many men will refuse to wear a condom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One NGO promoting sexual health suggested prostitutes start
using femidoms, because then the women themselves could have control of the contraception
and they don't have to rely on the clients wearing a condom. But the
prostitutes said they cannot use femidoms, because they are too big – in a
raid, they will often swallow the condoms they have on their person, because
condoms (used or unused) will be used as hard evidence by the police. But
femidoms were too big to swallow so they would not carry them or use them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The detail about Family Treasure washing out the condom for
later use is true. I heard lots of stories like that. That brand, ‘Golden Gun –
Never Flops’, is a real brand of condoms, you know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Migrants tend to live
on the outskirts of cities where they can find cheap temporary housing. They
seem to occupy a liminal space between urban and rural life, where they find it
hard to integrate. Lotus’s status as a migrant seems to compound her existing
problems. How do migration issues compound women’s problems in China?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hukou system prevents migrant workers getting really
good jobs. The <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Hukou is effectively China’s apartheid system. It is partly because of the
Hukou that migrant workers and urban residents live such separate lives.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>In the novel,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span>Lotus tries to become a salesperson, she even buys the
clothing for it. But she cannot because she doesn't have the correct residence
papers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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position of sex workers reflect patterns of class-based oppression in China? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most women come to prostitution through personal choice.
There is very little trafficking, there are very few women who are sold into
prostitution, there are not many pimps. However, there are some cases where the
pimp is the woman’s husband or brother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prostitution is illegal. The government does not really know
how to tackle the problem so the police do big raids and crackdowns. The police
arrest as many women as they can. The police will use any evidence they can to
prove the women are prostitutes. Condoms – used or unused – are considered hard
evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crackdowns are a big problem. The police will beat up the
women and force them to confess. If the woman goes unconscious, they will force
her to drink water mixed with wasabi so they wake up. A woman I know was
sprayed with a high-pressure hose with cold water, and then they put the air
conditioning on. When she vomited, they made her eat her own vomit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If they can prove that a woman is a prostitute, they will
repatriate her, take her back home. Repatriation means that the woman will be
sent back to her hometown in shame, and her family will have to pay the fine.
That means everyone will find out the truth. They will do anything to avoid
this. I know a woman who slept with the policeman but still had to pay the fine
before they would let her go. They would rather borrow money to pay the fines,
lose all their savings and go bankrupt, than be sent home in shame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: Hukou is a national identification system which determines
where citizens are allowed to live, and is used to control the movement of
people between urban and rural areas. Access to schooling, healthcare,
employment, and owning property all depend on where the individual’s Hukou is
registered.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The interviewer is from Norwich, UK and is
currently based in Beijing, China, where she teaches English Literature at a
state university, and writes about gender and culture in contemporary Asia. Her
writing has featured in various media outlets in China and the UK. Read more at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.zhendegender.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.zhendegender.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">Lijia Zhang is one of the few
mainland Chinese writers to write in English. Her first book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">was the memoir: <i>Socialism is
Great! A Worker’s Memoir of the New China</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: no;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-76155577651476534222017-05-17T08:01:00.000-07:002017-05-17T08:01:21.313-07:00Lijia Zhang on her novel Lotus: part 2 – women’s rights in China<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is Part Two of <a href="https://zhendegender.com/">zhendegender<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></a>‘s interview with Lijia
Zhang about her first novel <i>Lotus </i><span style="background-color: white;"> which centres on a young
migrant woman eager to escape her life as a prostitute in China.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the worst
thing about the state of women’s rights in China today?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a lot of problems for women in China. Women still
have much less power than men, and lower social standing but the wage gap is
probably the worst thing. The latest official statistics suggest that the
income for urban women is 67.3% of men’s income while women in the countryside
make only 56% of what men make. But many women are empowered by being able to
earn money. There was one sex worker I met who bought a flat for herself and
her mother to live in, in a city near her village. I think moving to the city
is the best possible outcome that villagers hope for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lotus questions how
to equate sexual pleasure with social norms, because she’s been told good women
shouldn’t enjoy sex yet she tries hard to please clients. How are attitudes
towards women’s sexuality changing? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met a woman who was very empowered by earning money, and
by her relative liberation since becoming a sex worker. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">People don’t get into the trade for sexual
pleasure, but some women do find sexual pleasure with clients, which they hadn’t
experienced with their husbands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China is going through a sexual revolution. Studies show
that a much higher number of people are having sex before marriage than
previously. In sociologist Li Yinhe’s 1989 study, 85% of people claimed they
had no sexual experience before marriage. Among the 15% who did have sexual
experience, some of them were already engaged, which means by Chinese standards
that they are already a couple. (According to The Report on the Health of
Chinese People's Sex Life, jointly released by Media Survey Lab and Insight
China magazine, 71.4% of people were sexually active before marriage in 2012.)<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are more prostitutes, more pornography, more young
people having sex before marriage, a higher rate of divorce, and now people
have many different sexual partners. If her husband cannot satisfy her, a woman
can divorce him. These women will not stand for second best, because they don’t
have to any more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Another woman I met<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>felt very
conflicted about one client. An older colleague told her to think this way,
just imagine<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">:</b></span> “The clients
give us sexual pleasure and money, we use them for a service – not them using
us.” She called clients dogs. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">She joked that a perfect job would be something
that would give her both sexual pleasure and money. But she also craves
respect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having a mistress is a very common way for a man to show his
money and status. This started with the Emperor and noblemen, who would have
many concubines. Maoist reforms in the 50s changed that, even though Mao
himself was doing all sorts of things with young women behind closed doors,
disobeying his own rules. For some time prostitution was very uncommon in China
but the rates are high again. Now, men have mistresses to prove they have a lot
of money and a high status. Ernais are just glorified prostitutes. The
relationship between a man and his Ernai is primarily about money and economic
status, not love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lotus accompanies her
friend Mimi to an abortion clinic. It’s quite an emotive scene, but abortions
are very common in China with about 16 million abortions are performed annually.
Is abortion viewed as a social or political problem in China?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abortion is quite a normal thing in China. I’ve had an
abortion, my sister has had several abortions, and my mother had abortions.
There is no social stigma because<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Chinese women don’t
carry the same emotional or religious baggage about abortion as people in the
west.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span>It is not considered a
danger to society. It is just<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> a common form of birth control, and</span> people
rely on access to abortion. Women don't get counseling after abortions like in
the UK. Most people don’t think a foetus is a human being, so it is not a
problem.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is very easy to get an abortion, but it is not always
safe. There are many hospitals and clinics that women can go to. There are
adverts in the back seats of cabs: “quick and easy treatment at such and such a
clinic.” Some women go to get very cheap backstreet abortions, and it can be
very dangerous. They go to places without proper licenses and get a razor
treatment or something like that and it is very harmful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most women don’t know about other types of contraception.
The information is not really available. So they just use abortions as
contraception. I think this is changing, if slowly, and more women are learning
about other ways to prevent pregnancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you hear stories
about women fighting back against patriarchy while you were researching the
novel?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know a woman who was with a client who wanted a blow job.
He had not given her enough money, so she said no. He told her “stop pretending
you are a noblewoman, you are a common prostitute,” but she still refused to
take less money. He said, “fuck your mother”, and she replied, “leave my mother
out of it.” Again, he said “fuck your mother”, so she picked up a heavy glass
ashtray and she hit him in the face with it. She lost her job for that, and she
lost a few thousand kuai on the deposit she had paid the massage parlour she
worked at as a guarantee she would not run away. But a friend helped her get a
job at a higher-class establishment instead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know another woman who ultimately wanted to get out of the
trade. She made a deal with herself that she would get out if she could earn
10,000 kuai. So she earned 10,000 and she said, 20,000 and I will leave. When
she reached 20,000 she said to herself, “now I have to save up to buy a home.”
When she had bought her home she still did not give up the trade. Then she
learned about the dangers of unprotected sex: she got very worried that she had
contracted HIV because she had had unprotected sex. She realised she could have
died by now. So she went for a test. Back then the results would be really
slow, she had to wait several weeks. While she was waiting for the results, she
made a deal with herself. She decided if she got through this without HIV, she
would really quit the trade. Her results came back clean, so she quit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 3 of this interview will be posted on Wednesday 24th May</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The interviewer is from Norwich, UK and is
currently based in Beijing, China, where she teaches English Literature at a
state university, and writes about gender and culture in contemporary Asia. Her
writing has featured in various media outlets in China and the UK. Read more at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.zhendegender.com/">www.zhendegender.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lijia Zhang is one of the few
mainland Chinese writers to write in English. Her first book <span style="background-color: white;">was the memoir: <i>Socialism is
Great! A Worker’s Memoir of the New China</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: no;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-47441031714442422992017-05-11T09:02:00.001-07:002017-05-11T09:02:54.631-07:00An Interview with Lijia Zhang on her debut novel Lotus.<div class="MsoNormal">
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of her rebellious journey from disillusioned rocket factory girl to
international journalist. Her 2008 memoir <i>Socialism
is Great! A Worker’s Memoir of the New China</i> documents her escape from a
mind-numbing job testing pressure gauges at a Nanjing munitions factory into
the world of English Literature. Her debut novel </span><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lotus,</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> inspired by her grandmother’s
deathbed confession of being sold to a brothel, delves deep into the sex
industry in contemporary Shenzhen, following a young migrant woman, Lotus, who
is eager to escape her life as a prostitute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lijia
Zhang will be talking about her novel and her work at two events in London – at
The <a href="http://asiahousearts.org/events/sin-cities-lijia-zhangs-shenzhen/">Asia House </a>on the 15<sup>th</sup> May and at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/21st-century-china-its-women-a-conversation-with-lijia-zhang-tickets-33818083799">China Exchange</a> on the 18<sup>th</sup>
May. She will also be talking about her work on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q30rg">Start The Week</a>, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BBC Radio 4,
on May 15th at 9am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over the next week we will be posting an interview with Lijia Zhang with
the kind permission of the author and the blog <a href="https://zhendegender.com/">zhendegender </a>. The interview
took place in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">December 2016, just weeks before
the publication of <i>Lotus</i>. In part 1, Lijia Zhang describes her reasons for
telling this unparalleled story, how she learned to relate to Chinese sex
workers, and how her own struggle for self-improvement informed her
character, Lotus.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-transform: uppercase;"><u>IDENTITY,
BREAST IMPLANTS, AND WANTING MORE FROM LIFE: LIJIA ZHANG ON HER DEBUT NOVEL
LOTUS (INTERVIEW: PART I)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">Why did you
feel that you had to tell this story about contemporary China?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">I tried to find out about
grandmother’s life after her deathbed confession of being a concubine, but my
mother knew very little about her life. So I have always been curious about
these women. Then on a trip to Shenzhen I went to a hairdresser near my hotel
and asked for a haircut. There were several women there but they said they did
not know how to cut hair. I looked at the floor. There wasn’t any hair on the
floor. I realised these women were prostitutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">Prostitution is an interesting
window to see social changes and it touches upon some serious social issues,
such as migration and women’s rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">Why write a
novel, not a non-fiction book, about prostitution in China?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">I wanted to become a journalist,
and I did. I wanted to have a story published in the New York Times, and I did.
I had always wanted to write a novel. So I thought I would try my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">I started <i>Lotus</i> when I was
in my final year of my MA at Goldsmiths. The storyline has changed little, but
the style changed a great deal. For example, I experimented with the point of
view. I started by writing all the dialogue in pidgin English, with direct
translations of Chinese, like “Toilet is where?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">I tried writing it from the
perspective of Lotus, and later from the perspective of Bing, her child's father, but that meant I could
not tackle social issues like women’s rights, migration, the aftermath of
Tiananmen. So I decided to write it in third person, alternating between
different points of view, and eventually it became <i>Lotus</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">How do your personal
experiences inform the characters and events in your novel?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">It took a lot of work to do all the
research about these women. It took months and months of research over many
years. I met so many people with so many stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">I volunteered for an NGO dedicated
to help female sex workers, where my main task was distributing condoms. On day
two of my time as a volunteer, I met a really colourful character. I
accompanied a staff member as she went to visit a sex worker. This woman was
sitting outside, which is unusual because most women would hide inside. They
wear revealing clothes but they don’t want to draw attention to themselves on
the street. This woman was doing embroidery on the street – she was
embroidering a church onto fabric. She took us inside, and the woman I was with
commented on her breasts. I was amazed how much they talked about breasts. She
spoke to prostitutes in their own language, to be on their level. She was a
former prostitute and knew she had to engage them using the same language. They
really trusted her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">The women inside the shop commented
on her breasts in return, so she explained that she herself had had surgery.
They said “I’m thinking of getting implants, can I see?” So they went into the
back room and everyone looked at her breasts. The breast implants had not
settled well. It was a cheap procedure, and one of her nipples went sideways.
She had been told that massaging them would help so she was always massaging
her chest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her fellow
villagers call Lotus “the toad who dreams of eating swans meat”, meaning
someone who dreams too big. How does your own struggle for
self-improvement come through in Lotus?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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woman’s hometown with her. On the day we travelled there, she wore very nice
clothes and when we arrived in the village, she took off her trainers and
changed them for a pair of leather high-heeled shoes.. On the bus there, she
introduced herself, and us, to other people from her village: “hey, I am the
second from the Mao family, do you remember me? This is my friend, an
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is the same for other
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usually wore very dirty clothes all the time. But when he went to his home
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is realistic. Single mothers
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stand-alone places but have now been engulfed by the city. They are supported
within that community. She may not have the correct papers for the baby but
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baby’s father just for the papers. Lotus is very smart and savvy. I don’t think
she has decided yet. But she may not maintain the relationship with Bing,
because she realised that she can’t be herself when she’s with him. He is very
selfish really. He doesn’t really consider her needs. He was a more sinister
character in previous versions. But Lotus has always been very strong, quite
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">My husband left me for a younger
woman. That was horrible for me. I fell apart. But I used my break-up to
understand Lotus’s struggle to deal with the crisis and to become independent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">PART 2 of this interview will be
posted on the 17<sup>th</sup> May.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-14530114071417395892017-05-06T02:55:00.000-07:002017-05-06T02:55:13.564-07:00A Secret Sisterhood<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeILe4WSNLmu3cFauw2jVw8QShP-SbY4b7RPsubVFPedXh4vSr_FO2g8N3s-4fHrtTa4NMrwyHOXUTMOKTg7LZTbKdFTgn2ZwFQfNdWERLuUlMM2dDiP1i9fVmFJ3Cmg8-DGaSkO9RHOd6/s1600/Secret+Sisterhood+revised+cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeILe4WSNLmu3cFauw2jVw8QShP-SbY4b7RPsubVFPedXh4vSr_FO2g8N3s-4fHrtTa4NMrwyHOXUTMOKTg7LZTbKdFTgn2ZwFQfNdWERLuUlMM2dDiP1i9fVmFJ3Cmg8-DGaSkO9RHOd6/s320/Secret+Sisterhood+revised+cover.png" width="209" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica;">On the 1<sup>st</sup> June Aurum Press will be publishing a
must-read book about female literary friendships. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think
Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female
authors are usually portrayed as isolated eccentrics. Emily Midorikawa and Emma
Claire Sweeney seek to dispel this myth with a wealth of hidden yet startling
collaborations.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">A Secret Sisterhood </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">looks at Jane Austen’s bond
with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharpe; how Charlotte Bronte
was inspired by the daring feminist </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mary Taylor; the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the
author of <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i>, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and the underlying
erotic charge that lit the friendship of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield
– a pair too often dismissed as bitter foes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">Through letters and diaries
which have never been published before, this fascinating book resurrects these
hitherto forgotten stories of female friendships that were sometimes illicit,
scandalous and volatile; sometimes supportive, radical or inspiring; but
always, until now, tantalisingly consigned to the shadows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">A Secret Sisterhood </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">evolved from the authors’ own friendship. Their blog, <i><a href="https://somethingrhymed.com/">SomethingRhymed</a></i>, charts female literary bonds and has been covered in the media and
promoted by Margaret Atwood, Sheila Hancock and Kate Mosse, showing that the
literary sisterhood is still alive today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Secret Sisterhood<br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
hidden friendships of Austen, Brontе, Eliot and Woolf </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">By Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">Foreword by Margaret Atwood </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">Emma Claire Sweeney </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no; mso-themecolor: text1;">has lectured at City University, New York University in
London, the Open University and the University of Cambridge. Her work has won
Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards, and has been
shortlisted for several others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish. She
writes for newspapers and magazines such as the <i>Guardian</i>, the <i>Independent
on Sunday</i>, <i>The Times</i>, and <i>Mslexia</i>. Her debut novel <i>Owl
Song at Dawn </i>was published by Legend Press in July 2016. The novel has been
shortlisted for the BookHugger Book of the Year Award, and Emma has been named
an Amazon Rising Star and a Hive Rising Writer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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London campus. She has taught at the University of Cambridge and the Open
University, as well as writing for the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, the <i>Independent
on Sunday</i>, <i>The Times</i>, <i>Aesthetica </i>and <i>Mslexia</i>. Her
memoir ‘The Memory Album’ appeared in <i>Tangled Roots</i>, an Arts
Council-sponsored collection that celebrates the stories of mixed-race
families. Emily is the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2015, and was
longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition. She was a runner-up in the SI
Leeds Literary Prize, judged by Margaret Busby, and the Yeovil Literary Prize,
judged by Tracy Chevalier. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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had a number of requests for the names of the texts and the authors, so here
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">‘I am delighted to have won Words And Women’s 2016 Regional
Prize with my piece of creative non-fiction, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Suite for my Father</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">. The
Words And Women prose competition is especially dear to me because I saw a
flyer in 2013 at a local bookstore for the inaugural competition and it felt so
encouraging and welcoming that I decided to send in some writing.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">Entering that first competition meant learning about Words And
Women and their important work. It was on their blog too that
I came across a post written by Leigh Chambers about the Angles writing group
she’d started in Cambridge. I got in contact with Leigh and eventually joined
the group. Angles has been an invaluable source of friendship and community for
me. I have Words and Women to thank for connecting me to these amazing writers!</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">I was a highly-commended writer for <i>Words and Women: One</i>
and that was my first writing success ever. It was such a boost to have come so
close to being included in the anthology! I loved the ethos of the competition
and entered again the next year. My first writing publication is a piece in <i>Words
and Women: Two</i>. </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">Because Words And Women has been an integral part of my
finding a place as a writer, I wanted to send them my very best work. Last
fall, I sent them a story that is deeply meaningful to me as well as one in
which I had carefully considered every word. Of all the pieces I have written
over the past few years, this is the one of which I am the most proud. It was
an absolute thrill to have it honoured as the 2016 regional winner.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">As part of the prize, I had a session with Jill Dawson,
best-selling novelist and founder of the <a href="http://gold-dust.org.uk/">Gold Dust</a> mentoring scheme. Before the
session, I sent Jill a longer piece and an overview for a book-length project.
Jill’s feedback was fantastic! It was clear to me that she had read my work not
only with a keen eye for structural and narrative possibilities, but also with
a generous respect for the soul of the story I want to tell. What I found
especially helpful was that she would pair a general suggestion about my
writing with specific areas in the piece she had read, showing me where I might
put her guidance to use right away. I could then take these ideas and apply
them to other pieces of writing. Jill offered just the kind of perspective and
boost I needed to give me the confidence to embark on my larger project. And,
we met in a great teashop in Ely that was new to me - always a bonus! </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">Thank you Jill Dawson and thank you Words And Women!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Demonstrators in NYC showed their support for Feminist Voices © Jun Chen</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">On 20</span><sup style="font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">
February 2017, the main social media account of a prominent Chinese women’s
organisation, </span><i style="font-family: Helvetica;">Feminist Voices</i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, was
shut down for 30 days. The group had publicly shared their support for the
women’s strikes in the USA planned for March 8</span><sup style="font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, by posting a link
on their Weibo* </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">page. They were not calling for Chinese women to strike, they were simply
showing their support for anti-Trump demonstrations occurring elsewhere.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Feminist activist Li Maizi, who spoke in London on 7th March © Li Maizi </span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">But China
strictly prohibits political resistance and public demonstration of any kind. They
received a message stating, ‘Hello, because content you recently posted
violates national laws and regulations, your account will be banned for 30 days’.
This prompted waves of support from women the world over, with images pouring
in from overseas Chinese women who attended demonstrations, but nothing has
changed the fate of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feminist Voices’</i>
public platform. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hearing this
news, I checked on my own web presence. A piece I wrote for a major Chinese
media platform had vanished with no explanation. Just days after its
publication on 13<sup>th</sup> February, the link my editor had sent, and that
I’d shared with family and friends, stopped working. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I had
interviewed a wonderful woman writer whose recently released debut novel deals
with themes of migration, class, and gender inequality through the lens of sex
workers in Shenzhen, southern China. I was not aware that the content of our
interview might be regarded as even remotely incendiary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d struggled over edits and pitched numerous
publications. In the end, all that hard work got me was a blank screen and 404
error message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Recently, I volunteered
to help organise a public celebration of women to be held just days after
International Women’s Day. We lined up novelists, poets, storytellers, actors,
comedians, and activists who wanted stage time. We found a handful of
organisations to provide free information. We decided to fundraise for an NGO
supporting transgender teens in southern China. We arranged sponsors, a venue,
and a poster. We invited guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Just six days
before the event was due to take place, we got a message from an LGBT rights
activist and founder of Beijing’s LGBT Center, who was due to take part in the
panel discussion. Her lawyers had been contacted by police, and recommended we use
caution, if we chose to proceed at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Her last
attempt at speaking at an IWD event was met with suspicion, too. She got phone
calls from the authorities telling her not to go to the 2016 Beijing Literary
Festival event she was billed for. When she showed up, she was threatened by
police at the door and decided not to risk arrest. A year earlier, five young
feminist activists were detained for five-weeks without being sentenced,
because they’d planned to hand out fliers about domestic violence on public
transport. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">She and other
Chinese participants had the ovaries to forge ahead, hoping to ensure the event
would happen if they could. They are well versed in the consequences of
addressing sensitive issues in public. But as a bunch of foreigners, we couldn’t
be sure of the repercussions for ourselves, our guests, or the cause we
believed we were supporting. Ultimately, we had little choice but to cancel, while
hoping that bowing out now provides us space to come back stronger another day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">The scariest
thing about censorship is that it’s so covert. There is no reason given, no
apparent logic behind censorship (only a vague sense of clamping down ahead of
political events, such as the ‘Two Sessions’ annual congress in March). Feminist
Voices were told they’d broken Chinese law, but not told how. My article had
disappeared without a trace, the editor promising to ‘look into it’ before
going silent. The authorities had not explicitly told us to cancel the event, we’d
not been contacted directly (we didn’t event know which of the vast array of
‘authorities’ we should appeal to). The vague threat that we’d been ‘found out’
was enough to scare us into compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">The
difference between the cancellation of our one-time event, or the disappearance
of my one-time article, and the plight Feminist Voices represents for feminism
across China, is obduracy. The majority of that handful of foreign women
dabbling in women’s rights activism will leave China, sooner or later. They
have the choice to leave censorship behind them. Chinese Feminists, in and
outside China, however, will continue to face persecution for their beliefs and
risk fates far worse than censorship if they push the envelope too far. Their
futures can only lead towards assessing their role in the battle for gender
equality against their personal safety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Harmond Allan</td></tr>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-53434390123288943242017-03-12T01:57:00.000-08:002017-03-14T09:47:48.801-07:00Days 5 & 6 of our celebrations<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our week of celebrations ended with a noon-day reading by Kate Cox of extracts from some of the highly-commended entries to our prose competition, the completion of Clare Jarrett's response to Deborah Arnander's winning story <i>The Wife </i>and her noon-day talk about creating her installation, and our launch in Nunns Yard Gallery of our newest anthology <i>Words And Women: Four</i>. Here are a few photos from these events. We will put more up over time - today we are having a rest! - but in the meantime would like to thank our collaborators Print To The People, Clare Jarrett and Chalk Circle Theatre Company, everybody who took part in the celebrations, who gave up their time and their considerable skills, and everybody who came along to see the art, hear the readings and watch the performances. Thank you!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Arnander</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clare Jarrett - installation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clare Jarrett - installation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Cox</td></tr>
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Words and Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00128691782025466143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563131467863066766.post-63945281851716596412017-03-09T09:03:00.002-08:002017-03-09T09:03:34.439-08:00Day 4 of our celebrations<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-no-proof: no;">T</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oday Su Squire read <i>The Wife</i>, the national winning story from our prose
competition, in Nunns Yard Gallery. The artwork is by Jo Stafford
from Print To The People and is in response to the story written by Deborah Arnander.</span></span><br />
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extracts from highly-commended works included in our anthology <i>Words And
Women: Four</i>. The extracts include the start of a non-fiction piece <i>Dear
Shadow</i> by Kate Feld, the beginning of a short story called <i>Sorry
Business</i> by Lilie Ferrari, and another called <i>Private Parts </i>by
Cherise Saywell. For more details see our dedicated blog page <a href="http://wordsandwomennorwich.blogspot.co.uk/p/iwd-17.html">IWD 17</a>.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clare Jarrett's work in 13A</td></tr>
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