Imagined Spaces celebrates essaying as trials, attempts and adventures in thinking in all their creative modes.
New Writing
Imagined Spaces is also a space for new writing.
Taking a line
for a walk
How might we take the books we read, the art in galleries for a walk, let these talk to—even change—how we think about ourselves and the world?
Conversations
We’ve invited writers and artists into a shared digital space of conversations about their recent publications, and have recorded these encounters.
Other Works
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"When Daughters Leave: Essay Writing and the Fugitive Subject" by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low. Writing in Practice 5, 2019.
"In Other Words: an essay about language arranged by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low", New Writing, 2019.
Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low, "Creative Essaying" in Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing, edited by Emma Brankin, Carinya Sharples & Francis Gilbert (Neilson, 2020)
Kirsty Gunn & Gail Low "On the Run" (Writing in Education, NAWE, 2018)
Kirsty Gunn "Essaying in the Old Music Room"
Kirsty Gunn, "Essaying on..."
Kirsty Gunn, "Coming out of Lockdown", (on the literary marketplace)
Folder of students essays on DURA
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DURA youtube channel for Hospitalfield conference
Imagined Spaces YouTube channel
This is an edited recording of an event, "Essaying across the Hemispheres" that took place at the University of Dundee, June 24th, 2024.
This is an edited recording of an event, "Essaying across the Hemispheres" that took place at the University of Dundee, June 24th, 2024. Part One contains a conversation between Kirsty Gunn, Graeme Morton and visiting New Zealand writer, Lynley Edmeades, about links between New Zealand and Scotland, and about the literary life. In Part Two Edmeades reads an essay from her new book. Part One contains only the preface to Part Two but you can hear Edmeades reading her work by clicking the link to Part Two. You can also read workshop participants creative responses HERE.