Tracey Warr's Blog, page 28
July 5, 2016
The Write Stuff in France
Maisons Daura, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, where I have just completed a writing residency
An article on English writers living in France, featuring an interview with me, has just been published in the August issue of Living France magazine. It includes information on writers groups, the Writing at the Castle writing workshops, literary festivals in France including Parisot and Charroux, and The English Library in Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
Filed under: Writing Tagged: books, fiction, france, historical fiction
July 2, 2016
New exoplanet novella published
The Exoplanet Lot exhibition, organised by MAGP, opens tonight. Visitors will go on an expedition to artworks sited in the Lot Valley, France. The MAGP gallery in Cajarc features works by Tania Candiani and Angelika Markul. From there, visitors travel by bus and bike to works in the landscape by Thomas Lasbouygues, Caroline Le Mehaute, HeHe, and my site on the long-distance GR36 footpath running beside the river Lot. Finally there are late night performances and exhibitions in Saint Cirq Lapopie by Ludwig, Tania Candiani and Nahum Mantra.
The exhibition runs until 4 September.
My ebook novella, Meanda, is published today for the start of the exhibition and available from Amazon. Full details on the Meanda website.
Follow the story on Twitter in daily doses until 4 September on @Meanda55555
Filed under: Books Tagged: art and ecology, caves, contemporary art, exoplanet, fiction, france, interspecies, mycelium, water
June 29, 2016
New historical novel – proofs arrived
Proofs for my new historical novel, Conquest: Daughter of the Last King, arrived today. Very exciting. The book will be published by Impress Books in September and is the first in a trilogy, telling the story of the 12th century Welsh princess, Nest ferch Rhys, and the struggles between the Welsh and the Normans.
Image: Nest ferch Rhys and King Henry I from an illuminated manuscript by Matthew of Paris in the British Library
Here is a brief account of Nest’s extraordinary life.
Filed under: Books Tagged: historical fiction, middle ages, Normans, wales
June 8, 2016
Meanda twitterfiction 1
The water moved her silently through the lilypatch, towards the river bank, for a better view of the white sphere.
Follow daily on @Meanda55555
Filed under: Fiction Tagged: art and ecology, exoplanet, future fiction, water
May 30, 2016
Meanda – a novella about a watery exoplanet
My new novella, Meanda, about a watery exoplanet, has just gone off to the French translator. It will be published in English and French as an ebook on 1 July 2016 and is available for pre-order now on Amazon. More on Lot Valley Log.
Filed under: Fiction Tagged: art and ecology, books, france, interspecies, water
May 14, 2016
300 Days of Sun
My interview with novelist Deborah Lawrenson is just published on The Displaced Nation. A free copy of Deborah’s lastest novel, 300 Days of Sun, is on offer to a competition winner.
Filed under: Books Tagged: fiction
May 11, 2016
Where I Write
Misty morning view of the house Surrealist writer Andre Breton lived in, from my writing desk in Maison Daura, Saint Cirq Lapopie, France
A short article on my writing process and places has just been published by Impress Books on their Blog ‘Where I Write’.
In her delightful book, Three Rivers of France, Freda White wrote about Saint Cirq Lapopie, where I am currently writer in residence: ‘The village clambers up an escarpment so steep that the door of each house is about level with the roof of that below.’ She was not exaggerating. It took a few days for me to get my ‘hill-legs’ when I first arrived. Yet the steepness is what makes this such a spectacular landscape, where there are so many vantage points to look at ‘the ravelled thread of water’ in the valley below, as the ‘most winding river in France’, the River Lot, makes its meandering way towards the sea.
Filed under: Writing Tagged: books, france
May 1, 2016
new book on Willem de Kooning
Photo: Hans Namuth
My review of Rosalind Krauss’ new book, Willem de Kooning Nonstop has just been published in Times Higher Education magazine. Her book is ‘the culmination of a lifetime spent pondering [de Kooning’s] paintings and the pictorial intelligence behind them.’
Filed under: Books Tagged: modern art, rosalind krauss, willem de kooning
April 28, 2016
Exoplanet Lot Approaching
Thomas Lasbouyges, Project Elina, 2013-2015, in collaboration with Guillaume Barth. Photo: Francois Klein.
If you happen to be anywhere near the Lot Valley on 13 May 6.30pm do come along to the Work in Progress Presentations at Maisons Daura in Saint Cirq Lapopie for the forthcoming Exoplanet Lot exhibition organised by MAGP.
The exhibition will be at open-air sites between Cajarc and Saint Cirq Lapopie from 3 July until 4 September.
Filed under: Contemporary Art Tagged: exoplanet, france, writing
April 20, 2016
From Lot to Exoplanet
Looking at details in the Lot Valley to help me create a fictional watery exoplanet. See Lot Valley Log for details and slide show of more research images.
Filed under: future fiction Tagged: art and ecology, contemporary art, france, water, writing
