• Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Joanna Pocock
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It's events like this that give me hope...
#cinema #princecharlescinema #belatarr #santango #lasklokrasznahorkai #london
Joanna Pocock
This is tomorrow, folks! The launch of Ethel Mannin's wonderful 'An American Journey' (1967) rediscovered by @neglectedbooks.com and published in tandem with Boiler House press ... it is an online event so feel free to tune in at 7pm (London time) or 2pm (Missoula time). (1)
Bring your own Greyhound travel-related stories!
(BYOGTRS!)...
This absolutely gorgeous book was given to me yesterday by someone I have been mentoring for a couple of months. She has come to know me well & we have had some lovely, fruitful exchanges. The older I get, the more I value teaching as a practice, as an opening, not a closing. (1)
Stamford Brook underground station last night.
Dubuffet meets tube station wall.
#angel #peelingpaint #underground #london #outsiderart #accidentalart
I freaking love my students & am so grateful for how they so often make me see things differently. And so very cool to be able to see Ann Patchett look back at BEL CANTO via her annotations!
(2)
#teaching #mentoring #teachingwriting #ual #shortcourses #annpatchett #belcanto #gifts
when it comes to chronicling 'America' in the 1960s.
You can register on Eventbrite (see pic 2 for QR code) or find it here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
See you there!
#ethelmannin #anamericanjourney #greyhound #travelwriting #nonfiction #america #roadtrips #thegreatamericanroadtrip
We will be talking about Greyhounds (the bus not the dog), solo women travellers, the GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP (in reality and in literature), the erosion of public space, solo travel and how it's captured on the page and Mannin's very engaging tone ... (2)
Had a fabulous time @andreamason.bsky.social Waste Exchange. Got lost, arrived late, missed @susiecampbell.bsky.social et al. Saw the amazing, Colin J Herd, @vikshirley.bsky.social and Nicky Melville, Wow! @joannapocock.bsky.social Came home with these beauties by SJ Fowler & Pepe Mason-Bradshaw 🔥🔥🔥
