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Thank you again to everyone that came down to our latest Earworms at . It warms my heart to see and hear everyone’s experiences of writing in this space :) I’ve been reading a lot about the healing powers of writing (through bell hooks) and I hope that we are able to offer the opportunity for you all to explore this stuffs at our events. More to come soon. Always thank you to big legend Joe who came up with the idea for earworms a coupla summers ago over an instagram video call 💌
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Big week tbh
MARCH BOOK CLUB W
For March in the Worms Book Club we’re reading the dazzling debut novel by our very own Worms 6 cover star: I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel.
The unnamed narrator of I’m A Fan is in a seemingly unequal relationship with ‘the man I want to be with’. She is also addicted to cyber-stalking the man’s other lover, an online influencer she refers to as ‘the woman I am obsessed with’. Written with a clear and unforgiving eye, this exhilarating debut explores obsessive love, race, privilege and power dynamics, and heralds Sheena Patel as one of the most exciting and original voices writing fiction today.
Head over to:
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to sign up for the Bookclub newsletter and receive the Zoom and film link. See you on March 28th at 7pm GMT ❤️
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TOMORROW 🎉 admission is free but booking is recommended. Disclaimer: we don’t know how to get rid of earworms and you’ll prob not learn from / either
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📣 EARWORMS IS BACK 📣
Join us next Wednesday March 8th for our listening/reading/writing circle. For this spesh comeback we will have our NEW issue of Worms available for purchase.
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Earworms is a listening circle/write-in, and a collaboration between the ICA Bookstore and Worms Magazine – a biannual literary style magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture. Using sound as a central point of departure, Ear Worms aims to use writing and listening as a community tool and encourages attendees to experiment with free-form, non-restrictive writing practises. These events will consist of an evening of immersive recorded music, writing and open-mic readings.
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(Worms 6) The themes of this issue of Worms are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages.
FEATURING
SHEENA PATEL, NADA ALIC, COSEY FANNI TUTTI, ELVIA WILK, ANN ROWER, CHRIS KRAUS, GHISLAINE LEUNG, YELENA MOSKOVICH, LOLA OLUFEMI, SAM MOORE, ISABEL WAIDNER, CECILIA PAVÓN, EAR WORMS X LATE WORKS
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Cosey Fanni Tutti was interviewed in the current issue of Worms by 💌
Hannah Pezzack speaks with Cosey Fanni Tutti about her new novel re-sisters, ideas of literary collaging, and her five-decades-long career defined by radical experimentation in multidisciplinary performance, collage, writing and music ❤️🔥
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Cici Peng ( ) reviewed a new release for Worms. ‘Owlish’ by Dorothy Tse and translated by Natascha Bruce, is an incredible fantasy reimagining of the political crisis in Hong Kong. Out on February 23rd, this surreal book, full of animatronic dolls, surveillance states and controlling professors, is not one to miss.
“The state between dreaming and waking is called hypnagogia, a semi-consciousness that blurs the solidness of reality. Throughout Owlish, Dorothy Tse’s debut novel, we dance between reality and fantasy, witnessing miracles and tragedies that grow and disappear, leaving only a trace of a dream upon waking.”
Head over to www.wormsmagazine.com/newsletters to read the rest.
FEBRUARY IN THE WORMS BOOK CLUB W
For February we’re returning to some issues we’ve talked about in some past editions of the Worms Book Club and reading two chapters from Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory:
Sleeping With The Enemy
&
P***o Witches
Following the publication of the highly polemic “Baise-moi” (roughly translated into “F**k Me” although the French has a certain violence and roughness about it that isn’t easily rendered into English), which was later adapted into a movie under the same name, Virginie Despentes has been making her presence in the French literary scene loudly heard and widely known. Uncompromising with her views and subject matters, she has been speaking for the marginalised and the excluded ever since she began to write.
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to sign up for the Bookclub newsletter and receive the Zoom and film link and see you on March 1st ❤️
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Issue 6 has arrived! 🪱💙💥
Worms #6 delves into themes that are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages.
FEATURING
, , COSEY FANNI TUTTI, , ANN ROWER, CHRIS KRAUS, , , , .moore94 , , ,
CONTRIBUTORS
, , , PHOENIX LOSAVIO, , CHRIS CARTER, .0
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Thanks to everyone who came to our book club on Wednesday 💞 We had such a great array of voices and it was great to *listen* to all your insights and thoughts. Thanks as always to for hosting this space 🫶🏽
This month we read Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros published by and among many other things we talked about:
the possibilities of healing through sound, the politics of noise, gentrification and silence and listening as an escape over listening as introspection.
It was such a rich discussion and we’re looking forward to the next one. Sign up here to be the first to receive news of next month’s pick:
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The way my mum dog-ears her books is a fu***ng sin
Some reading devices I’ve been advertised recently
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Worms Weekly: a bimonthly love letter of what we've been reading, watching and clicking.
This week we have some on Annie Ernaux and her new documentary ‘Les Annes Super 8’, Afterglow by Eileen Myles, In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, some poignant First Nations Australian reads, lots on what we’ve been watching, and much much more…
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JANUARY BOOK CLUB W 🪱
For January we’re shifting gears a bit, taking December’s Sun Ra as a musical springboard to arrive at Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros.
The questions at the heart of this quick read are:
What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge of your own imagination?
To accompany this text, we suggest you put into practice one of the exercises detailed in the book and share your experience with us on Wednesday the 25th of January 7PM gmt.
Head over to:
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to sign up for the Bookclub newsletter and receive the Zoom and film link. See you on January 25th ❤️
Strayan reading ✅ recommendations welcome! ❤️
December’s bookclub pick was our first multimedia foray with a pairing of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Sun Ra’s Space is the Place. Although Afrofuturism was the thread that was meant to tack these two pieces of media together, as we chatted, we came to the conclusion that Butler’s brutal book perhaps had a better fit within an Afro-pessimism tradition. Was a tough read to stomach.
Rose asked us what we thought about the main character’s hyperempathy syndrome (a condition that causes her to “share” all the pain and pleasure other people experience as if they were her own) and we discussed the spiritual potential of someone who can feel the pain of others in a world where most people are treated like monsters or animals.
Sun Ra’s film was described as “beautifully chaotic” and we talked some about the more classic pillars of Afrofuturism: the harnessing of technologies such as music and space travel to further the Black American cause. We loved the presence of cults in both the book and film and talked about some of their similarities.
In conclusion:
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God Is Change.
Our little worm farm has grown, and after years of doing my lonesome stacks of ‘best reads’ this year, we have all put our tails together and brought you a bulk order of our favourite books from 2023. By
Manifested this one after sent this and Eric delivered the absolute goodest of goods
🚨 WORMS 6 is available pre-order now! 🚨 The themes of this issue are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages.
FEATURING
SHEENA PATEL, NADA ALIC, COSEY FANNI TUTTI, ELVIA WILK, ANN ROWER, CHRIS KRAUS, GHISLAINE LEUNG, YELENA MOSKOVICH, LOLA OLUFEMI, SAM MOORE, ISABEL WAIDNER, CECILIA PAVÓN, EAR WORMS X LATE WORKS
CONTRIBUTORS
HAYDÉE TOUITOU, NICOLE DELLA COSTA, ZARA JOAN MILLER, ERIN TAYLOR, JESS COLE, ARCADIA MOLINAS, PHOENIX LOSAVIO, HOPE ROALFE, HANNAH PEZZACK, CHRIS CARTER, CLEM MACLEOD, CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN, ISABEL MACCARTHY, SAMANTHA ROSENWALD, ELVIRA GARCIA, CELESTINE COONEY, BUG SHEPHERD-BARRON, MARY WATT, DELIA RAINEY
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