The Bohemian Writers Club is an experiment in writing courageously, creatively, uncomfortably. Here we create characters and stories that venture into the dark and wrong for, as Ottessa Moshfegh wrote: how else will we understand ourselves? How else will we come to see more clearly?
It is also a space for story truths more than happening truths: stories designed to catch-and-release the firestorm that is our world - what it feels like to be caught up in something you don't control - as opposed to conventional fieldwork accounts of what happened at such and such a time in such and such a place. For stories judged not by accuracy but by their resonance.
And it can be a space for intelligent polemics and behind the scenes confessionals on the experience of fieldwork and theorising. A space for the psychedelic and ruminative - beautifully rendered, always.
It is where we promise to write thoughtfully, candidly, experimentally about whatever it is which we have come into this world to say - and damn the consequences.
As you'll see, the Boo features creative fiction and nonfiction by, among others, Brian Pentland, Randall Collins, Yiannis Gabriel, Innan Sasaki and Loïc Wacquant on pugilism, bullying, cannibalism, extremism and even an alternative history to a row down the Amazon: http://www.bohemianwritersclub.org
If you'd like to contribute a piece of strong writing of between 6 and 6,000 words, please send it to Mark de Rond at markderond@gmail.com or at mejd3@cam.ac.uk
This isn't a space for academic papers (which won't be read). It is a space instead where the art of writing itself matters; where writing "literarily" covers anything from fantasy to crime, the realist to the surreal – the point being that what we really like is courageous, experimental prose that is very, very good, and that we enjoy form and language as much as good yarn.
Needless to say, publishing here won't hurt your career but nor is it likely to help it.
Would love to hear from you.
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Mark de Rond
Judge Business School, Cambridge U
Cambridge
+44 12 23 764135
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