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10/09/2026

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On Being Ill - new perspectives on disability, illness and care within ghe arts and literature.
13 new authors reflect on Virgina Woolf’s originalw essay written exactly 100 years ago.

📍Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens NW3
📆Thursday 17 September
⏰3-4 pm (come early and get a tour of the musuem!)
🎟️ tickets via websites, includes admission to musuem

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Come and join us for the launch event Freud Museum London London of the new edition of On Being...
03/09/2026

Come and join us for the launch event Freud Museum London London of the new edition of
On Being Ill
with authors Daisy Lafarge Jude Cook Ted Monroe on the panel, chaired by

One hundred years after its first publication, the subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ continue to resonate for a new generation of readers. The New Menard Press has re-published Woolf’s essay alongside a collection of thirteen original pieces which outline new perspectives on illness, disability and care.

Please see our website for info and access to the event. For those who cannot make it: video footagage will be made available on the Freud’s Museum youtube channel after the event.

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Hope to see you there!

📅 Thursday September 17
📍Freud Muse London, 20 Maresfield Gardens NW3
⏰ Afternoon Sessions 3-4 pm

🎟️ Complement your visit to the Freud Museum with one of the Freud Museum’s tours or talks led by staff, volunteers and guest speakers.

Nikki Dekker is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, diepdiepblauw (deepdeepblue, 2022), was awarded the C.C.S. Cro...
09/07/2026

Nikki Dekker is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, diepdiepblauw (deepdeepblue, 2022), was awarded the C.C.S. Crone Stipendium, nominated for the Boon and Bronzen Uil, and earned her the title of de Volkskrant Literary Talent of the Year (2023). Her second book, Graafdier (Under Our Feet, 2024), was nominated for the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize and the Dutch Prize for Nature Writing (2025).

In autumn 2026, her children’s non- fiction book, Wie zegt dat orka’s zwart-wit zijn? (Who Says Orcas Are Black and White?), will be published. Nikki is an editor of the literary magazine Tirade and writes columns and essays for various publications.

Nikki’s essay is ATTENTION DEFICIT, was translated from the Dutch by and is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition.

Kathryn Maris is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The House With Only An Attic And A Basement.He...
15/06/2026

Kathryn Maris is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The House With Only An Attic And A Basement.

Her poems have appeared in Penguin Modern Poets 5, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Forward Prize Anthology and many periodicals in the US and the UK. She also writes essays and reviews, and is Poetry Editor of afm.

Kathryn’s piece, ‘Kairos’, is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition now.

Lina Scheynius is a photographer known for her distinct, diaristic style. Her work captures moments of intimacy and hidd...
13/06/2026

Lina Scheynius is a photographer known for her distinct, diaristic style. Her work captures moments of intimacy and hidden beauty, from nudes to still lifes and self-portraits. At times luminous, then hazy – always intense and thought-provoking – her images convey sensual experience with unflinching authenticity.

Scheynius’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Zurich, Tokyo, Oslo, Berlin and London, and in group exhibitions at institutions including House of Photography, Hamburg; Centre de la photographie, Geneva; Somerset House, London; and the Foam Museum, Amsterdam. She previously wrote a weekly photography column for Die Zeit, has published nineteen photobooks and is the author of Diary of an Ending (Prototype Publishing).

Lina’s essay is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition!

13/06/2026

Jameisha Prescod reads an extract from What We Inherit.

Jameisha Prescod is an artist-filmmaker, writer and journalist from South London. Their writing and visual work explore how disability and illness intersect with history, culture, colonialism and identity. Jameisha’s work is grounded in a research-based practice that weaves intimate personal testimony with wider socio-political themes.

Their essays have been published in anthologies alongside Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde and Sinéad Gleeson, and their photographic work won the Wellcome Photography Prize in 2021. Jameisha is also the founder of You Look Okay to Me, a creative media company and online space for chronic illness.

Jameisha’s piece is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition!

Ted Monroe is a writer and English teacher based in London. Having contracted Long Covid in 2022, he has since turned to...
12/06/2026

Ted Monroe is a writer and English teacher based in London. Having contracted Long Covid in 2022, he has since turned to writing that blends memoir, humour and literary criticism to make sense of the seismic life changes that have come with chronic illness.

He has published in The Fence and The Mortar. He is currently working on his first book, which explores the intersections between illness, literature and art. This is also the subject of his Substack, The Art of Convalescence.

Ted’s piece is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition!

11/06/2026

Alvina Chamberland reads part of Three Surgeries Paving a Road to Passing, which is an excerpt from Blades of Grass, Shatters of Glass (Fragments of Life).

Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels. After publishing two books in Swedish, she made her English-language debut with Love the World or Get Killed Trying (2024), a trans female take on the travelling-alone genre, probing questions of eternity, s*xuality, longing, death and love, as well as how difficult it is to remain soft when one is the target of straight men’s too often hidden lust and open disgust.

It was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and was listed by the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company as one of the ‘121 Best Books of the 21st Century’.

Alvina’s piece in full is available to read now in On Being Ill: New Edition!

Jess Cawdron is a poet and essayist based in South London. Formerly a teacher, she now works as a speechwriter in the ch...
11/06/2026

Jess Cawdron is a poet and essayist based in South London. Formerly a teacher, she now works as a speechwriter in the charity sector.

‘Notes on Psychosis’ is her first published work, selected from The New Menard Press open call for submissions.

Notes on Psychosis is available to read in full in On Being Ill: New Edition!

Join us Blackwell's Bookshop Oxford on Saturday afternoon the 13th of June with author Sally Bayley and actress Victoria...
11/06/2026

Join us Blackwell's Bookshop Oxford on Saturday afternoon the 13th of June with author Sally Bayley and actress Victoria Tennant.

Sally will be accompanied by award winning actress Victoria Tennant who will perform uniquely dramatised extracts from Sally’s novel WORM IN THE BUD which was published this year by
The New Menard Press.

📍Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
🗓️ Saturday 13th June
⏱️2-3pm
🎟️ Free

📕WORM IN THE BUD - A Fable
Lilian Blackwood is a sixteen year old girl who longs to be powerful.
But the strict Victorian world she has been raised in does not allow girls to express themselves, and her desire to be noticed gets the better of her when she meets with the handsome Mr Tilney and his manservant, Carpenter.

Set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the British Empire this is a fable of innocence unchallenged by experience and a comment on the ambiguities of love, s*x and history.

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