plot twist

literary collective, reading group, occasional publisher and alternative learning space currently living on the Internet

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

next week we start ~ BAD READER ~ a new study on all things ~reading~

pt.1 w/ Lydia Davis’ ‘Fragmentary or Unfinished’ from her latest essay collection Essays (2019), alongside passages from Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
~ dm us for more info/to join :-)

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

on the hunt for tasty recs on the phenomenology of reading, reading practices, and alternative ways of ~knowing~ a text or literary work, etc. broad!

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

@daisylafarge oh nice, thank you! I am currently bracing myself to watch Laurie Anderson's 'Heart of a Dog'

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

looking for reading (and listening and watching) recommendations on grief and loss for human and non human companions (thinking; Gaitskill Lost Cat, C.S Lewis A Grief Observed...) grateful for any/all tips
💔

[Lucia Dove @LuciaDove]

VLOED is available to pre-order! Here I am on Vlieland drinking wine and eating takeaway in the dunes, celebrating

[Lucia Dove @LuciaDove]

I wrote a short story for the first time in years and it’s in a zine called ‘sprout’, alongside @ggeorgi_e & @jo_kali’s really quite good essay about living in a www

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

@SDSampers yes please :)))!

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

on the hunt for tasty recs on the phenomenology of reading, reading practices, and alternative ways of ~knowing~ a text or literary work, etc. broad!

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

so proud of @LuciaDove <3 <3 <3 <3

[Lucia Dove @LuciaDove]

It brings me a lot of joy to reveal the cover for my first non-fiction book VLOED, on memory landscapes between Essex & the Netherlands in relation to the North Sea Flood of 1953. Published in May by @dunlinpress. The beautiful cover is illustrated & designed by @EllaJohnstonArt

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

@SDSampers oops this is georgie

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

@SDSampers how did u discover her birth chart!

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

Looking forward to our upcoming writing workshop hosted by @2dabhm, focused on autobiographical memory-writing. reading from Tove Ditlevsen, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Annie Ernaux, we'll be experimenting with what it means to remember. How do we write about past selves?

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

++ included are the full reading lists from the year’s programme, and a limited edition poster (A3) by Lucie de Bréchard

Follow this link to purchase for €12 + shipping (or arrange ams collection!)
https://t.co/LqC26Hmjll

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

〰️ OUT NOW: PLOT TWIST II 〰️
YAY! after a few too many delays and hold-ups (caused by our nefarious arch nemesis: covid-19), plot twist ii has finally arrived! 👀👀👀👀

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

11 pieces from the hosts of our 2019/20 programme, including meditations on privacy, work, + failure; a sci-fi tale in four acts; a story on dizziness + giddiness; two essays on the cultural politics of disgust; and a musing on language lodged for a lifetime in our memories.

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

@LuciaDove this is a good reminder that we should also tweet about this 😅 xxx :))))

[Lucia Dove @LuciaDove]

also included: reading lists from the year’s programme & a limited edition poster (A3) by Lucie de Bréchard. For NL orders it's €12 + €5 shipping or email/DM @pplottwistt to arrange collection. Intl shipping is being organised for Jan, pls email [email protected] to arrange

[Lucia Dove @LuciaDove]

VERY happy that @pplottwistt's 2nd publication is available: plot twist ii is a collection of 11 essays & short stories from the hosts of plot twist’s 2019-2020 programme of reading groups & workshops. Incl. my essay 'Proper English' on offal & the cultural politics of disgust.

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

The event will be live-streamed at 17.00 (Amsty time) and we would vvvv much appreciate your company and presence.

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

Some of you may know that pt have spent the last 5 months on Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme where we’ve been researching, planning, and stumbling through practices and tools for care and intimacy in the context of the digital.

[plot twist @pplottwistt]

https://t.co/Y4swMLL8p4
Tomorrow we will be presenting oops, you’re muted, an email exchange where we share some resources we’ve been thinking through + a (v much work in progress) toolkit where we (and you, we hope!) will gather and share some ‘tools’ for managing life online.