Creative work isn’t predictive: ‘It’s not like scanning all possible outcomes and then making a move. It’s essential not to know what’s coming next. Not to know how to continue the sentence. Not to know what is the start of the sentence.’
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Grateful for spring flowers on another grey day
Message me if you fancy a free ticket to this reading tomorrow night, which will be fab. Stuck at home with nasty cold!
My first Wivenhoe event, and in conversation with a thinker who gave me ways to think about gender that finally made sense.
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Just had my first chapbook, Consequences, accepted for publication in above / ground press’s innovative prose series (prose / naut) so I decided to finally finish my new website!
www.susanrudy.uk
The Banff Centre is a wondrous place, and this award includes 100% tuition remission plus accommodation and meals!
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The sky so wants to be blue, but so far the morning sky over Wivenhoe rail station is grey!
Finally deleted Facebook and Instagram when they gave me no choice: I’m not paying and I’m not consenting to ads. Looking forward to finding my friends and colleagues here, and to enjoying more actual Bluesky!
Many thanks to Maddy Costa, Diana Damian Martin, and Mary Paterson for putting together this fabulous issue which asks: 'What does elasticity offer, or promise? How far can something (or we) stretch? Across how many locations, borders, crises?' somethingother.blog/2025/07/11/j...
Therapists help yourself! In training to be a therapist, my brilliant daughter, Julian (formerly a consultant), offers virtual assistance! She can help manage your calendar, inbox, invoices, & budgets, help with writing & proofreading, run workshops & courses. Email her: JulianDorscht@gmail.com.
Julian's personal assistance is 💻 Virtual only | 📍 Vancouver-based | 🌈 Queer- and neurodiversity-affirming
Julian offers:
✅ Calendar & inbox management
✅ Invoicing & budget management
✅ Document writing, formatting & proofreading
✅ Facilitation support for workshops or courses
✅ Specialized admin for therapists & wellness providers
💸 Starting at $35/hr
➕ Free 30-min consult to see if we’re a fit!
Therapists, creatives, small business owners: anyone who needs virtual assistance! My brilliant, former management consultant daughter, Julian (juliandorscht@gmail.com) can help! See next post for more information!
Writers and artists who have academic affiliations: do you also have a website for your creative projects? Trying to decide if I need one, and if I do which platform to use. (I’ve used Squarespace in the past for organisations I’ve led but it’s expensive). Thanks for any thoughts!
New publisher listing for: Something Other (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
If you’re in London on July 14th, I’d love to see your smiling face!
Works finished and just beginning as well as new experiments from Karen Christopher, Rhiannon Armstrong, Susan Rudy, Alexandra Baybutt, Helen Savage, Victoria Gray and Sam Williams.
Black and white image, probably a lithograph, depicting a hot air balloon in the middle of a field, surrounded by people. The image is captioned ‘Descent of the balloon in the valley of Elbern'.
Join us on Monday 14 July for a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to celebrate Something Other’s 13th chapter, On Elasticity: a collection of audio, video, written works and other somethings.
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Last day in my Banff Centre studio.
Created at the Banff Centre: one manuscript and cover image (by Alisa Ochoa, another Leighton artist), in process.
Not capturable in photographs: hundreds of words and sentences, sharpening, slowly; dozens of conversations and so many thoughts; and sleeps, during the day, to take it all in.
Another tranquil space to write and read: the Banff Centre’s Library
