Writing Notebooks

Revisiting This Girl Is on Fire: Seeking a Home for the Narrative During Lockdown to Uncover the Burning Embers

“…She alerts us to how understanding emerges within the “semidarkness when mortality looms large and passions rekindle briefly” (p. 165). Writing through this lens of mortality is to become unburdened by the practicalities of living; it is to write words that flow with truth (Cixous, 1993).…”

Encountering “Gerald”: Experiments With Meandering Methodologies and Experiences Beyond Our “Selves” in a Collaborative Writing Group

“…Part of the backdrop to our collaborative endeavors has been a shared interdisciplinary concern with narrative and nontraditional forms of social inquiry (Bainton, 2007;Bond, 2002;Brown, 1996Brown, , 2001Martin, 2007Martin, , 2010Speedy, 2008;Trahar, 2006). We have been drawn together through a keen interest in storytelling and story writing and through mutual preoccupations with a poetics of space and reverie (e.g., Keats, 1817in Forman, 1952 We have been challenged and sustained in our explorations of writing as a process of performative inquiry by our readings (Ashcroft, 2002;Cixous, 2004;Denzin, 1999;Derrida, 1980;Mair, 1989;Ifekwunigwe, 1999;Spry, 2001;Pelias, 1999Pelias, , 2004Richardson, 2000;Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005;Speedy, 2008;and St. Pierre, 1997 among others). We have also been extended and nourished in our collaborations and collective working practices (Davies, 2000;Davies & Gannon, 2006;Gannon, 2001;Gayá Wicks & Reason, 2009;Heron, 1996;Onyx & Small, 2001;Pease, 2000;Speedy, 2005;and West, 1996).…”

Writing the Incalculable A Second Interactive Inquiry

“…The dream leads me back to writing: how all we can do is press ahead, through the darkness, in the belief that we will discover (Cixous, 2004). And it does seem very dark, sometimes, doesn't it?…”