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Interview with Lucinda Nettleton
Tell us a little bit about your stories and how you came to take part in that project? The writing opportunity came through The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Senior Lecturer Dr Amna Khan advertised for a writer to fictionalize oral histories of gift-giving traditions spanning three generations of Pakistan, Bengal and Gujarat. Initially, I only completed the Pakistani account but Dr Khan and the Gift of Togetherness team enjoyed my work so commissioned me to complete the Gujarati and Bengali accounts too. Tell us about this gift giving tradition in the stories, The Gift of Togetherness Project, from which the stories stem, is centralized around Asian gift giving…
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Jesobel Jones Blog Tour
How did you come up with the idea of Jesobel Jones? In the first few weeks of my Creative Writing MA, we were set the task of writing from the point of view of someone who had a disability. Being overweight was given as an option. It seemed to me more interesting to write about someone who didn’t seem that being overweight was a problem for her, just a problem for other people. I wrote a short piece and received lots of compliments about the voice in the exercise. She soon had a name, at this point Alyssa, the name Jesobel came along much later in the process, and she…