Edinburgh Napier University
MA Program
Fiction, Cross-Genre
Edinburgh, Scotland
Application Deadline:
Rolling Admissions
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$0
Genre: Cross-Genre
Consider the Space
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"Consider the white space / between words on a page, not just / the margins around them." This short film by directors Aaron Kotz and Frida Regaza, narrated by Scott Gentle, features Linda Pastan's poem "Consider the Space Between Stars." Pastan's poetry collection Insomnia is forthcoming in October from Norton.
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Kim Gordon and Carrie Brownstein
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In a talk at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth discusses her memoir Girl in a Band (Dey Street Books, 2015) with Carrie Brownstein of the band Sleater-Kinney. Brownstein's memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, is forthcoming in October from Penguin.
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Ninety-Nine Names for Small Dogs
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This short film from the Poetry School in England features Tom Jenks's poem "Ninety-Nine Names for Small Dogs." The poem is from Jenks's poetry collection A Priori (If P Then Q, 2008).
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Chris Abani
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Nigerian author Chris Abani gives a TED Talk on the concept of ubuntu, sharing stories of remarkable people, and concludes with Lucille Clifton's poem "Libation." Abani has taught at the VONA/Voices workshop, which was featured in "The Moment of Truth: Eleven Authors Share Stories of Life-Changing Retreats" in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Eleanor Henderson
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"I like movies a lot and I like novels a lot, and I like the sort of space that they inhabit when they overlap." Eleanor Henderson, an assistant professor of writing at Ithaca College, speaks about the film adaptation of her novel Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco, 2011). Henderson is featured in "Going Hollywood: The Business of Film Adaptations" by Michael Bourne in the new issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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The Power of Story
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"If this is storytelling, I'm in. More please!" In this TEDx Talk, Susan Conley discusses how exposure to powerful stories can captivate our imagination and inspire us to transform our lives. Conley cofounded the Telling Room, a creative writing lab in Portland, Maine, which is featured in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Amiri Baraka
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The late poet reads his poem "Something in the Way of Things (in Town)" in a 2009 performance with saxophonist Rob Brown. S O S: Poems 1961–2013, a new collection of Baraka's poetry published by Grove Press this month, is featured in Page One in the new issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Gizmo's Catcher in the Rye
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"Broadway was mobbed and messy. It was Sunday and only twelve o'clock, but it was mobbed anyway." In this short film from the Strand Book Store, directed by Rob Sichler, Gizmo the dog plays Holden Caulfield from the novel by J. D. Salinger.
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Yours Is the Earth
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"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master / If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim." This short film features Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," read by Tom O'Bedlam and filmed by Stephen Lister.
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