Edge Poetics

A Symposium on Innovative and Speculative Creative Writing Practices in Higher Education - 4th November 2017

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

@nicholasroyle Your contributions were absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much for agreeing to keynote.

[Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle]

Had a great day in Luton on Saturday talking with interesting folk about creative writing & experimental & speculative fiction @EdgePoetics

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

@anthonylevings @TimothyJJarvis Thanks! Really glad you could make it.

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

@EdgePoetics Thanks @TimothyJJarvis for an inspiring day. A great balance of papers and I’m only sorry I couldn’t stick around for all the readings.

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

@nicholasroyle @microbius @manuscriptgal Thanks! Though sorry you're having a bad journey.

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

Especial thank to our brilliant keynotes and readers: @microbius, @nicholasroyle, and @manuscriptgal! https://t.co/tSWlUS0ng5

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

Thanks to everyone for making the Edge Poetics Symposium a great day! So much to mull over. Really insightful presentations and discussion.

[Edge Poetics @EdgePoetics]

Thanks to everyone for making the Edge Poetics Symposium a great day! So much to mull over. Really insightful presentations and discussion.

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

That’s it, a small attempt to help address the bind of publishable/professional that arose in the #edgepoetics plenary.

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

or appear in Waterstones at all, but can still find an audience. (21)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

guidelines, outside the mainstream is not a void but a series of niches, homes to books that might not meet 3 for 2 requirements, (20)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

to the rest. A "publishable" book might appeal to multiple publishers but yours might only appeal to one or two. Outside the (19)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

informed decisions. The guidelines are not designed to beat or berate, but to guide. The problem arises when artistry leaves you (17)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

publishable is not concrete or immovable, it is a generalised selection of guidelines, knowledge of which writers can use to make (16)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

unpublishable can be viewed by another as highly publishable; this is the benefit of diversity and independence in publishing.) What is (15)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

attracts their own unique readers and writers, which also impacts on what is deemed publishable. (Work that one publisher deems (14)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

judgement against. A good publisher shifts and adapts, learns from others but also writes their own guidelines. Each publisher also (13)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

than writers, each can grow and change. Each can surprise. The problem is that without guidelines a publisher has nothing to weigh (12)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

*doorbell rings (not the Tesco delivery)*

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

guidelines apply to the majority and that sometimes gambling outside of them can have its rewards. Readers are no more fixed entities (11)

[Anthony Levings @anthonylevings]

After all, it is only when publishers witness the success of titles outside the publishable remit that they understand that the (10)