Summer Sessions 2016

Throughout summer 2016, the Centre for New and International Writing collaborated with Liverpool Biennial to deliver a series of interrelated public events and workshops. Summer Sessions 2016 explored ideas surrounding the relationship between the literary and visual arts, particularly in relation to the city, the radical avant-garde, civil action and protest.

Summer Sessions: Ranjit Hoskote in Conversation with Sally Tallant

Mumbai-based poet, critic, and curator Ranjit Hoskote joined director of Liverpool Biennial Sally Tallant for an evening of discussion and poetry readings at The Bluecoat. Drawing on their impressive range of global expertise in programming arts festivals, Tallant and Hoskote discuss Biennials worldwide and the ways in which international arts festivals and the literary arts can enter into creative and critical dialogue with each other.

Summer Sessions: Juliana Spahr in conversation with Dr Sam Solnick 

Radical poet Juliana Spahr, whose poetry is situated in the context of the contemporary avant-garde and undermines the political and cultural establishment, giving a fresh voice to the dispossessed, in conversation with the Centre for New and International Writing's Dr Sam Solnick. 

Summer Sessions: Poetry and Protest

Summer Sessions: Poetry and Protest featured a creative-writing workshop led by poets Sean Bonney, Juliana Spahr and Ruby Robinson. Read more about it here.

The Two-Sided Lake: Scenarios, Storyboards and Sets from Liverpool Biennial 2016

Members of the Centre contributed to The Two-Sided Lake, an eclectic collection of fiction, poetry, critical essays and interviews that explore the Biennial’s overarching theme: the episode. Co-edited by Dr Sandeep Parmar, The Two-Sided Lake also includes contributions from Dr David Hering, who conducted an interview with author Mark Z Danielewski, and Dr Will Slocombe who engages with the work of science fiction author Olaf Stapledon through his own creative/critical writing. Copies are available to buy here.