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On the 16 th June I went to a discussion about writing emotion with Katherine Angel as part of Warwick Book Festival. Katherine gave a reading that was beautiful and frank in terms of female sexuality. The book is fragmented in structure, the resulting narrative like poetry, true, unsettling, revealing…   Listening to her reading it felt like many threads of the way I had been feeling were being woven together. How to feel one’s sexuality and be a feminist, or at least a woman who believes in equality even if I can’t relate to the word ‘feminist’, regarded as extreme… as if one dislikes men. At least in my experiences it is so when walking streets outside of the academic community. For it seems to be a woman who wants equality and being a sexual being have conflicts. Katherine’s work drew out some of these conflicts. ‘stitched into myself’ was a phrase that resonated, expressing to me the difficulty women have explaining sexuality to men and one another. I have been pon...

  This morning I went to a screening of new ITV drama Love and Marriage followed by a Q&A with writer Stewart Harcourt. Stewart voiced the same advice Professor Douglas Dunn gave me ten years ago at St Andrews—persistence. The ones that turn writing into career are the ones that don’t give up and make it through the hard times. He also talked about connecting on a personal level in one’s work, because what may seem mundane and ordinary to you might be the thing that sells it to somebody else. Stewart Harcourt’s credits include Hearts and Bones, Treasure Island for Sky, Miss Marple, Jericho, and Peak Practice. There’s a lot going on in the first episode of Love and Marriage when all I really wanted to know about was the central character’s story at the start. However by the end I loved the rich characterisation, casting was superb, and the way in which characters talked to the camera a great touch. This event was part of Coventry literary festival.

One of my contacts forwarded me this link today, a fully funded AHRC PhD position at York on my subject, storytelling and adolescence! My first reaction was complete disappointment that someone is going to be fully funded when I am working my arse off juggling part time work with my PhD. But the difference is that my PhD is my concept, I’ve done the reading, pulled together different areas and a mix of ideas from sociology to psychoanalysis and English literature. In a way this is a good thing because it speaks volumes about the relevance of my work and that there is funding out there for it.