UPCOMNG FROM WORMS IN MAY
Thank you to everyone who has joined us at our first two sessions for WRITE what’s RIGHT! to nurture your writing or creative practice with loooooove 💌
If you haven't made it yet, please join us for upcoming events on the 14th of June and the 28th of June (where we can walk those new-composters through the first few weeks) 🥹
If you can’t make it to the in person sessions, the course material is also available for at-home study too, purchasable online ✨
For those that did join, please keep doin’ your gorgeous morning pages, take yourself out on an artist date, and go for a long walk with yourself as Greta Garbo would🚶PLUS, please tag us at @compost.library and we will reshare all your wonderful writings! 📝
We love u composters, hope to see you soon
Pierce + Clem 🫶💋
May in the Worms Book Club brought us Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux. Last Monday we discussed unbridled obsession, gender roles and commodities at Reference Point and online and all left feeling a bit more or a bit less crazy (depending) than before.
For June, we’re spring boarding off of Polly Barton’s ‘Porn: An Oral History’, which was our April pick, and we’ll be reading two chapters from Black Women Writers at Work, a compilation of interviews with 14 black women writers. The chapters we’ve picked are the ones with the brilliant Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison.
Responding to basic questions on the themes of why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, these well-known playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists talk about the connections between their lives and their art.
Head to https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1926-black-women-writers-at-work for a 30% discount at checkout.
Join us at Reference Point on Monday the 26th of June at 7pm BST or head over to https://www.wormsmagazine.com/bookclub to sign up and receive the zoom link.
2 Arundel St Temple, London, WC2R 3DA
See you there!
We’ll be at Presse Books Fair on Saturday the 17th of June so come over to Forma HQ for some Worm wares. There’ll be over 30 independent publishers and artists, workshops, alive zine assemblage, talks, performances, readings and more.
Bound to be a fun one.
Is your relationship with writing melting down? Are you reading a book your best friend recommended that you're hating? Is your ex taking credit for all of your intellectual pursuits?
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Happy Fertilising!
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