{"id":184,"date":"2024-01-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:15:00","slug":"this-term-im-at-durham-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"This term I&#8217;m at Durham University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This January until Easter 2023, I am resident at St John\u2019s College, Durham, as the <strong>Ruth Etchells Visiting Fellow.<\/strong> I\u2019ll be holding workshops and drop-in sessions, as well as one-to-one sessions on creative writing. My primary aim is to encourage self-belief and to enable students to trust their inner creative voice and not to \u2018over-rationalise\u2019 when working on their creative writing projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always a privilege to read the work of others; there are thousands of imaginative worlds out there waiting to be discovered and the St John\u2019s community is full of talent and potential. It\u2019ll also be great fun to be back in Durham and to return to college life, re-connecting with old friends and making new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes, and it is an excellent place and space to put in some quality time on my 3rd novel, which (no spoilers) is about a fundamentalist Christian cult in the northeast of Scotland, and the damage done by its charismatic leader to the community and to one family in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This January until Easter 2023, I am resident at St John\u2019s College, Durham, as the Ruth Etchells Visiting Fellow. I\u2019ll be holding workshops and drop-in sessions, as well as one-to-one sessions on creative writing. My primary aim is to encourage self-belief and to enable students to trust their inner creative voice and not to \u2018over-rationalise\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[92,64,93,91,66,63,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}