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What Happened to the House After They Left - Story Thread #creativewriting #short #fiction #house #shifting #everyday #life #objects #tell #stories #memory #people #places

*Five days left* to submit to the inaugural @The_Rumpus contests: Poetry Prize judge: Kaveh Akbar Fiction Prize judge: Rachel Khong Nonfiction Prize judge: @meganstielstra Get those submissions in by 3/2! therumpus.submittable.com/submit

These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment & our future. I'm reposting 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

🧵🪡 “Every morning for 54 years, I've woken up to our most faithful neighbour - a garbage mountain. It's watched me grow from playing with marbles to now having breathing issues & I've watched it grow from heap to hill," said Hamid, living near the Ghazipur landfill.

India has a wide variety of soils. For instance, just two districts of Karnataka have 20 soil types, I was told. A variety of soils means we need a variety of crops, and not just paddy and wheat. Multi-cropping, inter-cropping are ways of ensuring soil health. #HealthOfSoils

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Come along and take some of your own writings home!

Feel free to reach out to me about this:)

@baicenews @AlisonBucklerEd @SuryaPratapDeka kindly RT for reach!

As part of this activity, I am trying to gather experiences of students from different institutions. Please connect via DM if anyone would like to speak to me about their experience. It would just be a 20-minute video/voice call between 26 December - 3 January.

Hi, I am doing a scoping activity regarding restrictions surrounding Tier 4 Student Visa (now called as Student Visa). The aim of this activity is to particularly understand the restrictions of visa policy in terms of conducting field work outside the UK.

Still thinking about how the entire first half of "All We Imagine as Light" was shot during nights & played against urban darkness; reflecting how when you're working long hours, you have time for friendships, love or even confronting your loneliness only after the sun sets🧵

@VishalSangu This looks really interesting! Will check it out :)

@itswhilereading Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but you should check out The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

Hi, I am looking for recommendations for fiction or creative nonfiction set in South Asia (for example India) talking about urban local heat island effect. But if there is something on this topic in other geographies, I'm interested!I am currently thinking of The Overstory...

Had an excellent time thinking and developing this workshop! And of course got to be in a place among people who have offered so much warmth for my practice❤️ Thank you @rethinkingfable ❤️

Come along!

‘Making Geography Matter: Opening up the Doreen Massey Archive’ - a brilliant @OOCDTP funded PhD @GeographyOU in partnership with @RGS_IBG Closing date: 7 January 2025 oocdtp.ac.uk/making-geograp…

📢 Applications are open for our first Collaborative Doctoral Award, 'Losing an Empire & Finding a Role: Britain in the World ca 1940-1990'. 🗺️ Work with Dr Luc-André Brunet at @OpenUniversity & use our collections! ➡️ Find out more and apply: buff.ly/40fCKDY @OOCDTP

Hi, I am facilitating a workshop at one of my favourite places. Come and join us in creating something new as well as old. We are really excited to be doing this in-person so please spread the word and bring your stories along. @KentUniPoCo @KentAnimalHums

Reviewed a beautiful, important book, Gathering, published by @404Ink in @SanctuaryAsia for its October 2024 issue. I loved reading all the essays. Definitely recommend picking it up! For more insight, do read the review. sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/article/book-r…

youtu.be/P01nvvvHQ3s Fable from Asia recording is up. Thank you @rethinkingfable for initiating this project and having us on board. I learnt so much just by listening in those two days.Looking forward to the next set of events!