Writing & Resilience

TEDx Youth event 11 May 2024.

Later this morning, I’m leaving for Milford, the town where Damon Knight, James Blish, and Virginia Kidd helped establish science fiction as a respected literary genre and where The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency still operates out of Kidd’s former residence.

Blish and Kidd dubbed their residence Arrowhead, and during the 1960s it served as a getaway for SF writers who wanted to get away from nearby New York City. Such luminaries as Damon Knight, Kate Wilhel...