{"id":128,"date":"2026-04-17T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:19:34","slug":"creative-writing-workshop-27th-may-10-30-12-30am-armb-2-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/04\/17\/creative-writing-workshop-27th-may-10-30-12-30am-armb-2-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative writing workshop 27th May 10.30-12.30pm ARMB.2.49"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" style=\"width:429px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/ASF_CoverPlanet-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Abolition Science Fiction ed Phil Crockett Thomas; illustration by Nat Walpole. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are really lucky to have Phil Crockett Thomas joining us for a creative writing workshop as well as a more formal academic talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">The session will be a space to create and discuss speculative fiction on the theme of more just societies. It draws on\u00a0Phil\u2019s research on the anti-carceral imagination and her edited book\u00a0<strong><em>Abolition Science Fiction<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2022), written with activists and scholars involved in the movement for prison abolition in the UK. There is no need to be an experienced writer or activist to take part. A small amount of preparatory reading will be shared in advance of the workshop.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Places are limited,<\/strong> please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/newcastlelawschool\/2157272\">sign up<\/a> if you want to take part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are really lucky to have Phil Crockett Thomas joining us for a creative writing workshop as well as a more formal academic talk. The session will be a space to create and discuss speculative fiction on the theme of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/04\/17\/creative-writing-workshop-27th-may-10-30-12-30am-armb-2-49\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}