WRITESPACE STUDIO 14th February 2023

Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.

Lynne: I'm Lynne, a linguist in Brighton, England, who writes about language for both academic and non-academic audiences.

James: hello all, James from Stockport, UK. I mostly write about design education.

Ann: boston/us/design/academic short pieces

Stephanie: Hi I'm Stephanie, in the final year of my art history PhD on 14thC Italian images of the Grim Reaper. I'm on unceded Gadigal country.

Gokul: Hello. I am from India. I have done legal writing. I’m into academic writing. And I want to get into blog writing.

Bring our voices into the room: One thing you are excited about!

Creative warm up: Brainstorm fundraising ideas for helping Hussain resettle in Aotearoa New Zealand

Lynne: Amazon (ugh, but) wish lists can be used to ask for people to buy things that the person needs and send them directly to him. In terms of asking people for money, I think it’s good to have a clear fundraising goal and to be clear about what it’s going to fund—a budget

Stephanie: Could you seek sponsorship from a writing festival or a bookstore? Here in Sydney we have some bookstores founded on radical principles in the 1960s. Possibly a bookstore could host an event for gratis and or could push the campaign out to their networks. Setting up a webpage that explains what is happening, who Hussein is, with links to donate plus a list of events / booksales / etc would be helpful for distributing more broadly

Emma: thinking of how to collect the money, perhaps a gofund me or other charitable donation platform? to get the word out, good use of social media, Instagram etc, leverage existing networks to maximise reach ….

Ann: organize fundraising walks along local boundaries:

across the world (raise $ from local personal networks)

longer term $ to help Hussain continue writing workshops with refuges still in camps

sell or raffle related artist or print items:

printed historic maps of boundaries shifting

or lidar river images showing shifting over time

or images of earth from far enough away where boundaries are not visible

James: Kickstarter for a book, Kabuli cook along with Hussain (his fav dish), podcasts with Hussain (raising awareness)

Stephanie: Thank you for your leadership on this Helen, it really warms my heart that WRITEspace is a community in action

James: We are making one-off books with Hussain at the moment, but could definitely turn one into a riso (fanzine of stories that can be sold)

Ann: yes mix of poems/words and images

Stephanie: I bought a zine recently from a Ukrainian poet who was raising money for the conflict there, I think a zine is a great idea

James: Theoretically we could produce the design and then it could be printed and produced in different countries.

Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on? 🐶

Lynne: I am moving something from a later part of my paper to an earlier part.

Emma: addressing reviewers’ comments on my first chapter manuscript

Stephanie: Weaving the argument into a par that is just listing examples at the moment.

Ann: writing in response to a couple of images: marks on the land

James: I will be working on documenting metaphors for a design studio.

Post-pomodoro: Please tell us one thing that you accomplished

Lynne: I’ve moved what I needed to move earlier, and now I’m working on repairing the hole where I moved it from…

Stephanie: I realised I was trying to make two points in the one par, I choose which point I was trying to make. (Death is Satan!)

Emma: I quantified the number of papers published in the past 5 years to establish the novel nature of my paper

Ann: I smiled and enjoyed all the connections between the ideas/text I wrote about the two images

James: I read something about permeability, but didn't write a word! I am going to sign off tonight. See you soon.

WINDOW session:

Helen: What's So (narration) vs So What? (argument/analysis)

Lynne: Stephanie: for the last sentence, I thought get rid of the ‘in’ and go right into L’s painting shows the human condition…’ I also wondered about the connections between the descriptions of each panel and the bible verses.

Stephanie: Yes that's a really good point, I noticed that when I was reading aloud. Thank you

Emma: thank you for sharing Lynne! that was great

1 word poem:

PLEASE!!! emerged immigrant ocean fair

Stephanie: Like Aphrodite emerging from the foam

Emma: thank you all :)