Lived Experience Writing and Medical Humanities
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Central
A half day event with visiting writers and artists Daisy Lafarge, Kirstie Millar and Gita Ralleigh. The event will feature a panel where writers share and discuss their work, its connections with medicine, health and lived experience, and answer questions from the audience. They will also offer a creative practice workshop for students and staff to attend, with plenty of opportunity to share and discuss writing projects, research and works in progress.
Contact name:
Rosie Dastgir
Contact phone:
07530772598
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Daisy Lafarge
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Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist based in Glasgow, UK. Born in Hastings, she has lived in Scotland since 2011.
She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.
Her writing on ecology, art and literature has been widely published, appearing in Granta, Frieze, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere.
Daisy’s visual work has been exhibited at Tate St Ives, Talbot Rice Gallery, Serpentine Galleries’ online programme and elsewhere, and twice acquired by the University of Edinburgh Art Collection. In 2024 Daisy was selected for the SHAPE x Creative Scotland Emerging Disabled Artist Award to support the development of new work.
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Gita Ralleigh
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Gita Ralleigh is a poet, writer and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates at Imperial College and has an MA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Medical Humanities. Her poetry books are A Terrible Thing (Bad Betty Press, 2020) and Siren (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). Her debut children’s novel The Destiny of Minou Moonshine was published in July 2023 (Zephyr/Bloomsbury) and her second, The Voyage of Sam Singh in July 2024. You can find her on Twitter as @storyvilled and on Instagram as @gita_ralleigh