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hello[at]katebriggs.work
Web design and programming by Camilo Garcia A. Typeset in Neue Haas Grotesk by Christian Schwartz and Torre Farfan by Estefania González.
*an essay on the creative and critical life-practice of translation, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017 and a tenth anniversary special edition in 2024. Recipient of a Windham Campbell prize for non-fiction in 2021.
*an interview and other works responsive to and/or expanding on This Little Art.
*a novel about novelness and the novelty of living with a newborn, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Dorothy, a publishing project in 2023; shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the US Republic of Consciousness Prize the same year.
*an exercise in reading and rewriting Elizabeth Howard’s The Long View, including a short essay on writing backwards, published by Ma Bibliothèque in 2018
*the first novel by the founder of ‘The Gang of the Poetic Novel’, written with heat and colour in Bessette’s distinctive lineated prose, Lili is Crying describes the shapes of lives, loves and a troubling mother-daughter relationship in a time of war. Hélène Bessette called it: “a strange, lively, anxious mix – no, not depressing, far too clear and virile to be depressing.”
*‘My problem: how to pass … from a short, fragmented from (“notes”) to a long, continuous form (typically called “the novel”).’
*‘Fantasmatically speaking, there’s nothing contradictory about wanting to live alone and wanting to live together = our lecture course.’
*a book of collective thinking, workshop materials, exchanges, pedagogical rituals and new writing documenting a year-long inquiry into practices of conversation while in residence at Glasgow School of Art. Design by Neil McGuire.
*an experiment in listening to frequencies beyond human sensorial range, Silent Whale Letters is a long-distance correspondence intimately attuned to the infa-red voice of a blue whale, a document held silent in the sound archive, and other so-called ‘silent’ subjects.
*A collection of articles, conversations and other writings exploring how we prepare for creative endeavours. Looking to some of Barthes’s metaphors – for instance, the way a dressmaker lays out her pieces of cloth, or a cook imagines a meal – the Special Issue is an invitation to think about when and how preparations take place. How does the ‘work’ of preparation separate itself from, lead into or take over the final production? How might it complicate chronologies of writing and making? And how might a retroactive understanding of how a work departs from (or continues) its preparations change how it is received?
*a collective exercise, inviting practitioners from different discplines to respond to the trial exam questions Vladimir Nabokov set his students in the 1950s (Literature 311-12 or ‘Masters of European Fiction’), producing exhibition at Shandy Hall, Coxwold and a limited edition publication.
Download the introduction to the book here: [I need to prepare the download!]
Download the exam questions here: [I need to prepare the pdf!]
*a Rotterdam-based pedagogical and publishing project founded in 2016 and co-run with Annabelle Binnerts, Linus Bonduelle & Ash Kilmartin. Publishing 4-8 pamphlets of new writing by emerging and established artists and writers per year.
*our first free “Winter School” was held at Het Wilde Weten in January 2025.
*teaching narrative and narrative practices as a core tutor on the Masters in Fine Art & Design (Lens-Based) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
*Short Pieces That Move first free ‘Winter School’ took place at Het Wilde Weten in January 2025 with workshops led by Kate Briggs, Linus Bonduelle and Litó Walkey.
Fitzcarraldo Editions podcast, 1 Aug 2023
Between the Covers podcast, 13 Oct 2023
Listen to the conversation here
*In his lecture notes, Roland Barthes describes his dream of a new form of literary criticism; rather than theme or structure, it would be interested in reconstructing a novel’s most powerfully affecting moments. The novel Barthes had in mind was Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-46), translator unknown. In 2011, I invited readers of all ages to talk to me about their most intense memories of that book. The result was single page publication titled Exercise in Pathetic Criticism published by information as material in 2011.
You can download the fold-out poster (A3) here
*Four poster-pairs produced to mark the Spanish edition of The Long Form / La Forma Extensa, and printed in English, Spanish (translated by Carlota Melguizo) and Catalan (translated by Miriam Cano). Water colours by Xavier Aballí. Design by Joe Hales.
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*a series of ‘paper-size poems’ originally produced for a talk on Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, translated by John Sturrock. The poems are made from the name of an obsolete European paper size printed on paper cut to said size.
Download an essay on the project first published in Convolution here:
Download BIRD here:
Download SMALL HAND here:
Download SOLEIL here:
*an essay published in BRICKS FROM THE KILN #4 Edited by Natalie Ferris, Bryony Quinn, Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh‐Lister