People
Memory Maps is based in the Centre for Creative Writing in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
Members of the Creative Writing team involved in the project include Marina Warner, Philip Terry and Adrian May, as well as James Canton, who teaches on the MA Wild Writing.
Genii Loci
We are pleased to name Rebecca Solnit and Ronald Blythe as "Genii Loci" (Geniuses of place) and as patrons of the project. We thank both writers for allowing us to publish extracts of their work, which, in different ways, encapsulate the spirit of Memory Maps.
Rebecca Solnit - Genius Loci
"All maps are blank in a sense, for while my story is mine, my map of San Francisco is also potentially yours; both can be charted on the same map, and where the past has been mapped the future may yet inscribe other adventures."
Ronald Blythe - Genius Loci
"The hugger-muggerness of life in a farmhouse before there could be such an outlandish thing as a room of one’s own required one to see without looking and to hear without listening."
