Kate Fox
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Running another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia”
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Running another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia”
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
Running a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe!
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Running a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe!
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
Rollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution.
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
January 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Rollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution.
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
It’s been magical. Thank you so much for the neurome-making.
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It’s been magical. Thank you so much for the neurome-making.
Off on a mostly silent Buddhist retreat for a week which feels like an apt start to the year (have bought a “tickless” alarm clock & torch as my phone will be off).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
January 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Off on a mostly silent Buddhist retreat for a week which feels like an apt start to the year (have bought a “tickless” alarm clock & torch as my phone will be off).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
Leonard Cohen said if you marry the spirit of your generation, you’ll be widowed in the next.
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Leonard Cohen said if you marry the spirit of your generation, you’ll be widowed in the next.
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
With trepidation (what if no one signs up) & anticipation (I want to run these courses & I know they’re needed!) I’ve launched two online neurodiversity & creative writing courses.
Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space…
(Link here: linktr.ee/katefoxwrite...)
Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space…
(Link here: linktr.ee/katefoxwrite...)
December 17, 2024 at 12:47 PM
With trepidation (what if no one signs up) & anticipation (I want to run these courses & I know they’re needed!) I’ve launched two online neurodiversity & creative writing courses.
Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space…
(Link here: linktr.ee/katefoxwrite...)
Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space…
(Link here: linktr.ee/katefoxwrite...)
Over the pandemic I lost my mojo for many things but it seems to be back -so I’m running two online courses in creative writing & neurodiversity starting January.
(6 week courses). This is a teaser/preview thing cos booking opens next Monday
(6 week courses). This is a teaser/preview thing cos booking opens next Monday
December 9, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Over the pandemic I lost my mojo for many things but it seems to be back -so I’m running two online courses in creative writing & neurodiversity starting January.
(6 week courses). This is a teaser/preview thing cos booking opens next Monday
(6 week courses). This is a teaser/preview thing cos booking opens next Monday
Age yourself with your first computer…
(Had stopped playing like this on X. See. Am joining in in the safer place).
(Had stopped playing like this on X. See. Am joining in in the safer place).
November 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Age yourself with your first computer…
(Had stopped playing like this on X. See. Am joining in in the safer place).
(Had stopped playing like this on X. See. Am joining in in the safer place).
In a residency application it says “bio or artist statement”. Writer bios are usually more “I wrote this then that” whereas artists are all “Here’s my soul but in long words”.
So I thought best up make an effort- & like what I did enough to share as a Blue Sky intro:
So I thought best up make an effort- & like what I did enough to share as a Blue Sky intro:
November 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
In a residency application it says “bio or artist statement”. Writer bios are usually more “I wrote this then that” whereas artists are all “Here’s my soul but in long words”.
So I thought best up make an effort- & like what I did enough to share as a Blue Sky intro:
So I thought best up make an effort- & like what I did enough to share as a Blue Sky intro:
Lucky to live by sea and ever-shifting sky…
November 17, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Lucky to live by sea and ever-shifting sky…
Erk. Unlike on X in recent times, maybe I should be posting thoughts & whatnot.
But mainly I’m currently thinking about having suddenly realised my Arthurian Tarot deck was left behind in my divorce 5 years ago & feeling a huge need to replace it. Such rich images.
But mainly I’m currently thinking about having suddenly realised my Arthurian Tarot deck was left behind in my divorce 5 years ago & feeling a huge need to replace it. Such rich images.
November 15, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Erk. Unlike on X in recent times, maybe I should be posting thoughts & whatnot.
But mainly I’m currently thinking about having suddenly realised my Arthurian Tarot deck was left behind in my divorce 5 years ago & feeling a huge need to replace it. Such rich images.
But mainly I’m currently thinking about having suddenly realised my Arthurian Tarot deck was left behind in my divorce 5 years ago & feeling a huge need to replace it. Such rich images.
Oh. But it really is nice here.
Nice enough to post the latest photo I took of the stump at Sycamore Gap on Saturday which now has over 22 beautiful sproutings.
New growth & hope is always possible after destruction.
Nice enough to post the latest photo I took of the stump at Sycamore Gap on Saturday which now has over 22 beautiful sproutings.
New growth & hope is always possible after destruction.
November 13, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Oh. But it really is nice here.
Nice enough to post the latest photo I took of the stump at Sycamore Gap on Saturday which now has over 22 beautiful sproutings.
New growth & hope is always possible after destruction.
Nice enough to post the latest photo I took of the stump at Sycamore Gap on Saturday which now has over 22 beautiful sproutings.
New growth & hope is always possible after destruction.