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SUMMARY:April: Writer’s Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. \n\n\n\nThe retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019\, and he regularly took part in writers’ retreats during his postgraduate research. \n\n\n\nYou will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. You may access data online\, but the retreat is a day free from active researching\, mobile phones\, or other internet access (emails\, Instagram\, online shopping\, etc.) that steals away focus and attention from writing! \n\n\n\nThere will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. \n\n\n\nWe hope the writers’ retreats will be a source of collegial support as you work alongside fellow PGRs who share similar goals—but also pressures and insecurities—in relation to academic writing. \n\n\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary requirements no later than 2 weeks before the date of the retreat you are attending. \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so please email Fran Brooks if you wish to book a spot. 
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/april-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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SUMMARY:Pigs in Chinatown: A Discussion on Fiction and Film with André Forget
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening presented by the Manchester Writing School and the Pop Screen Cultures Research Group – André Forget in conversation with Reuben Martens. \n\n\n\nCanadian novelist André Forget will be reading from and talking about his debut novel\, In the City of Pigs (2022\, Dundurn Press)\, which chronicles the story of a failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art who enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal in Toronto\, ON. \n\n\n\nAndré and Reuben will also talk about the influence of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski) on André’s writing\, and how the filmic medium can inspire the novel writing process. They will also discuss how art is used and abused under the neoliberal capitalist system\, its role in people’s lives\, and the way narrative gives structure and meaning to experience. \n\n\n\nThe event will open with a drinks reception and a small array of amuse-gueule (alcohol-free and vegetarian / vegan options will be available). Excerpts from the film Chinatown will be screened. If you have any questions ahead of the event or for the Q&A\, please email R.Martens@mmu.ac.uk. \n\n\n\nPlease use the Eventbrite link\, below\, to sign up (free admission). \n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nAndré Forget was born in Toronto and now lives in Sheffield. He is the author of In the City of Pigs (2022\, Dundurn Press) and the editor of After Realism: Twenty-four Stories for the Twenty-first Century\, an anthology of short fiction published by Véhicule Press in 2022. He has written journalism and literary criticism for a variety of publications in Canada and the United States\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, The Globe and Mail\, The Literary Review of Canada\, and Southwest Review\, and he is currently working on his second novel. \n\n\n\nAbout the moderator: \n\n\n\nReuben Martens is a poet\, sound artist\, screenwriter\, and Lecturer in Film & Media Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. With David Janzen\, Reuben forms part of the international sound art collective Local Haunts (currently located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta\, Canada). \n\n\n\nPlease use the Eventbrite link\, below\, to sign up (free admission). \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/pigs-in-chinatown-a-discussion-on-fiction-and-film-with-andre-forget/
LOCATION:Cinema GF12 SODA Building\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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