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Susanna Crossman

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Writing. 'The Orange Notebooks' in Electric Literature: https://electricliterature.com/the-orange-notebooks-by-susanna-crossman/ 'Home is Where we Start', Penguin Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · Jan 16

Hello! A pinned post to say I'm an essayist, writer of fiction and non-fiction, novels and memoir (Penguin, Aeon, Vogue, Guardian...) I love collaborations, hybrid projects, curating, interviewing & teaching. Do get in touch.
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susanna crossman, writer, fiction, journeys, literature, homepage, more, information, 

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Of course the former 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Ill be joining the excellent writer Anna Wharton tonight to talk about my memoir Home Is Where We Start, my utopian commune childhood, archive research, life-writing and more. Join us !
All details below :

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White Ink Meeting TONIGHT

A reminder that it is the first Monday of the month and so that means we are meeting tonight for our White Ink meet-up.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Pour tout l’amour des fleurs mortes partagé avec Marguerite Duras.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Me too, and I love the beauty of dead flowers and fading bouquets. Such elegance, and grace.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Always inspired by Duras who kept all her bouquets.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Pour tout l’amour des fleurs mortes partagé avec Marguerite Duras.

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 5d

Explore memory enhancement and how we use objects, archives and history in life writing in our new course:

Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with @susannacrossman.bsky.social

Black text on peach background. Online course. Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with Susanna Crossman. 26 Nov 2025 18:30 - 20:30 GMT. Along the bottom, photo of Crossman seated on concrete steps.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Dans une chambre d’hôtel. Lundi soir.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 8d

La vue de la chambre d’hôtel. Mardi matin.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 8d

La vue de la chambre d’hôtel. Mardi matin.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Dans une chambre d’hôtel. Lundi soir.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9d

En attendant le train. Lundi matin.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9d

En attendant le train. Lundi matin.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 10d

Les dernières tomates. Dimanche midi.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 10d

Les dernières tomates. Dimanche midi.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 10d

💔

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.

Highly relevant today.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 10d

That’s extraordinary you saw that production by Volcano Theatre @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social . I also saw it and I loved it so much i wrote to the company and then went back and managed to see it two times more. It was one of the most startling plays I’ve ever seen.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

This always make me laugh too. The purpose of all literacy! 😂😅

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 13d

Out this week, looks like a belter from @badaude.bsky.social - just got the email from @versobooks.bsky.social to say mine's on the way 🙏✊️

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Amateurs!

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

Hahaha yes.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 22d

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Cover of Bad Language by So Mayer: hand-drawn illustration of an illuminated capital B, which is a grey dragon wrapped around a blue tree. The dragon has a red eye and smoke rising from its nostrils. The author's name and book title are written in a simple, non-joined-up cursive, as if on a chalkboard.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

It is key. I had to shout loud and lengthily to bring opera singers and contemporary artists into French psychiatric hospitals rather than getting patients to do coloring-in of Disney characters.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

It’s bridging that gap but not dumbing down. And yes the transgression of giving voice to the vandal. So amazing and moving. This is what we need now.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d

Same. Saw a play version when I was 16 and it changed me.