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A Symposium on Innovative and Speculative Creative Writing Practices in Higher Education - 4th November 2017

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Had a great day in Luton on Saturday talking with interesting folk about creative writing & experimental & speculative fiction @EdgePoetics


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Thanks @TimothyJJarvis for an inspiring day. A great balance of papers and I’m only sorry I couldn’t stick around for all the readings.


Especial thank to our brilliant keynotes and readers: @microbius, @nicholasroyle, and @manuscriptgal!

Thanks to everyone for making the Edge Poetics Symposium a great day! So much to mull over. Really insightful presentations and discussion.



Thanks to everyone for making the Edge Poetics Symposium a great day! So much to mull over. Really insightful presentations and discussion.


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That’s it, a small attempt to help address the bind of publishable/professional that arose in the #edgepoetics plenary.


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or appear in Waterstones at all, but can still find an audience. (21)


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guidelines, outside the mainstream is not a void but a series of niches, homes to books that might not meet 3 for 2 requirements, (20)


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to the rest. A "publishable" book might appeal to multiple publishers but yours might only appeal to one or two. Outside the (19)


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informed decisions. The guidelines are not designed to beat or berate, but to guide. The problem arises when artistry leaves you (17)


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publishable is not concrete or immovable, it is a generalised selection of guidelines, knowledge of which writers can use to make (16)


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unpublishable can be viewed by another as highly publishable; this is the benefit of diversity and independence in publishing.) What is (15)


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attracts their own unique readers and writers, which also impacts on what is deemed publishable. (Work that one publisher deems (14)


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judgement against. A good publisher shifts and adapts, learns from others but also writes their own guidelines. Each publisher also (13)


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than writers, each can grow and change. Each can surprise. The problem is that without guidelines a publisher has nothing to weigh (12)


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*doorbell rings (not the Tesco delivery)*


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guidelines apply to the majority and that sometimes gambling outside of them can have its rewards. Readers are no more fixed entities (11)


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After all, it is only when publishers witness the success of titles outside the publishable remit that they understand that the (10)


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successful this might even lead to evolutionary change in what is deemed publishable (or at least provide a notable edge case). (9)


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thing.) Writers rarely seek to be truly unpublishable, but their work can seek to change what is publishable, and when they are (8)


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a therapeutic exercise or a step to writing better things. (A book purposefully inciting hate on the other hand can never be a good (7)


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