Creative Writing and Mental Health Conference
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
What can writers and teachers of Creative Writing learn from psychiatry, neuroscience, and other medical disciplines about the links between creativity and mental illness?
Richard Hamblyn and Toby Litt, from Birkbeck, University of London, have organized an exciting series of dialogues, culminating in an ambitious one day conference on 'Creative Writing and Mental Health'.
Two distinguished experts in the field, Prof Kay Redfield Jamison (Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and Artistic Temperament) and Prof Nancy Andreason (The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius) will be giving keynote addresses on Saturday 27th May 2017.
In the run-up to this, there will be public events at Birkbeck each Friday evening from 28th March onwards, establishing a dialogue between medical professionals (often with literary backgrounds) and writers (often with medical experience).
Invited participants include: Birkbeck Creative Writing MA graduate Suzanne O'Sullivan (It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize); Lecturer in Creative Writing and former psychiatric nurse Nathan Filer (The Shock of the Fall); and Lecturer in Creative Writing and former psychiatric patient John O'Donoghue (Sectioned: A Life Interrupted).
Funded by the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF)