writing with: transversal stories and voices

We have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story. 
– Ursula K Le Guin

This evening of readings takes its cue from Ursula K Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which reimagines narrative not as a linear arc of conquest but a container to gather and ‘hold things that bear meanings and enable relationships’.

The gathering functions as a kind of ‘carrier bag’ – a vessel for holding voices, fragments, and temporalities. The event unfolds through a series of short readings that resist closure and invite collective engagement. Voice becomes continuous with what it reads, while also altering it – construing a space of communication, resonance, and shared knowledge. Through conversational exchange and the labour of reading, the event explores acts of being with others through words.

This event will be convened by Sokbom Hong, PhD Candidate, AA PhD programme and Marina Lathouri, Programme Director, AA History and Critical Thinking.