Lived Experience Writing and Medical Humanities
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Venue:
Birkbeck Central
A half day event with visiting writers and artists Daisy Lafarge, Kirstie Millar and Gita Ralleigh. The event will feature a panel where writers share and discuss their work, its connections with medicine, health and lived experience, and answer questions from the audience. They will also offer a creative practice workshop for students and staff to attend, with plenty of opportunity to share and discuss writing projects, research and works in progress.
Contact name: Rosie Dastgir
Contact phone: 07530772598
Speakers-
Daisy Lafarge
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Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist based in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.
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Gita Ralleigh
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Gita Ralleigh is a poet, writer and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates at Imperial College and has an MA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Medical Humanities. Her poetry books are A Terrible Thing (Bad Betty Press, 2020) and Siren (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). Her debut children’s novel The Destiny of Minou Moonshine was published in July 2023 (Zephyr/Bloomsbury) and her second, The Voyage of Sam Singh in July 2024. You can find her on Twitter as @storyvilled and on Instagram as @gita_ralleigh
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Kirstie Millar
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Kirstie Millar is a writer and the founding editor of Ache, an intersectional feminist press publishing writing and art on illness and pain. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. Her poetry book The Strange Egg was published by the Emma Press and won the Michael Marks Award for Illustration in 2023.
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