Oct 7-12
Totleigh Barton
Residential Writing Week: Fiction and Hybrid Writing
Magic, reality, and all that lies between
Tania Hershman
Sean Lusk
Guest: Alinah Azadeh
Alinah Azadeh
Alinah Azadeh is a writer, artist, performer and cultural activist of British Iranian heritage. Azadeh has most recently been published with The Beard, a magic realist tale of hair, power and revolution, in Best British Short Stories 2023 (Salt, ed Nicholas Royle) and Glimpse, an anthology of Black British Speculative Fiction (Peepal Tree Press, ed Leone Ross).
As first ever writer-in-residence at Seven Sisters Country Park / Sussex Heritage Coast (2020-23), for the South Downs National Park, she led We See You Now, a decolonial landscape and literature programme, exploring the coast through the lens of climate change, empire, loss, migration and belonging. This led to We Hear You Now, an audiowalk series of poetry, speculative fiction and new myth by Alinah and 10 fellow writers of Black and global majority heritage, now installed on Listening Posts across the coast and online, co-funded by Arts Council England.
Alinah is working on numerous writing projects including a novella, her artist memoir, a collection of landscape writing and a poetry bench commission for Towner Gallery’s 100th Anniversary set in the South Downs Landscape. Alinah is Writing Our Legacy/ Changing Chalk Associate Artist for The National Trust. www.alinahazadeh.com