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Killing the Angel seeks flash fiction

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Tuesday 22 April 2014| Leave a Comment »

Killing the Angel, “a literary experience inspired by Virginia Woolf,” will be launching its third annual issue later this year.

Under the tender loving care of publisher/editor/Woolfian Jessica Rosevear, KTA has persevered in the competitive and shrinking world of print literary journals. Its claim to fame is being carried by Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, but you can also buy the journal in New Jersey and online!

For the upcoming issue, KTA is holding a flash fiction contest. A call for submissions has gone out for stories with fewer than 500 words. The deadline is April 30.

Here’s a great opportunity for Blogging Woolf readers to exercise their creativity with a chance to see their work in print. Why not have a go at it?

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Mrs. Dalloway makes the list

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , , on Wednesday 16 April 2014| 1 Comment »

Mrs. Dalloway (1925) has made the list. According to The Telegraph, it is one of the Twenty Best British and Irish Novels of All Time.

It is in good company, and so is Woolf, company that includes Joyce, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, and more.

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Godrevy Lighthouse faces uncertain future

Posted in Godrevy, St. Ives, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Saturday 5 April 2014| 1 Comment »

Will Godrevy Lighthouse, an icon of literature thanks to Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse, be put on the auction block? Or will it be taken over by the Gwinear-Gwithian Parish Council? No one knows for sure.

Tuesday, operator Trinity House said it would keep the lighthouse, which sits on its own island near Hayle. Even though the light does not function, the towering white structure serves as a daytime visual aid for mariners. And it is considered a key element of the area’s heritage. It is said to be one of the most photographed Cornish landmarks.

Godrevy was built in 1858 and 1859 on the largest rock of the Stones reef. The lighthouse lies 980 ft off Godrevy Head in St. Ives Bay. The beach at  St. Ives has been named among the UK’s top 10.

Read more about Godrevy Lighthouse

Godrevy going modern, July 10, 2012

Woolf sightings: When Virginia went to the lighthouse, Nov. 22, 2011

 

 

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National Portrait Gallery to feature Woolf

Posted in art exhibits, events, tagged , , on Friday 4 April 2014| Leave a Comment »

The first exhibition featuring the life and achievements of Virginia Woolf through portraiture will be staged at the National Portrait Gallery in London, according to The Guardian.

NPG 5933. Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), 1912. Oil on board, 15 3⁄4 x 13 3⁄8 inches (400 x 340 mm). National Portrait Gallery, London

The exhibit, curated by Frances Spalding, will feature more than 100 works, including paintings, photographs, drawings and rare archive material. The letter Woolf wrote to her sister Vanessa Bell before her suicide in 1941 will be included.

Titled “Virginia Woolf: Art, life and vision,” will be staged July 10 to Oct. 26. Read more.

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In memoriam: social media tributes to Virginia Woolf

Posted in in memoriam, tagged , on Friday 28 March 2014| 1 Comment »

Virginia Woolf died 73 years ago on March 28, 1941, a fact that caused her to be a trending topic on Facebook today. Here are some social media posts commemorating her life, her work, and her death.

From Twitter:

#Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Note – smith.edu/woolf/suicidew… #Writing She died on such a date a long time ago, yet “the difficult times” remain

Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book | Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/index.php/2013… via @brainpicker

Virginia Woolf’s Wisdom On The World Is Just The Inspiration You Need Today dlvr.it/5G6v0R

Prachtig. “@brainpicker: Virginia Woolf, whom we lost this day in 1941, on the creative benefits of keeping a diary j.mp/1myxbrg”

Photo: outofprintclothing: Remembering Virginia Woolf, who died on this day, March 28, in 1941. tmblr.co/Zkhrwr1BRzvDa

Patti Smith’s moving homage to Virginia Woolf, who took her life on this day in 1941 j.mp/1jCQRKg

Less than a year before she died, Virginia Woolf published her landmark “Thoughts in Peace in an Air Raid” in TNR: on.tnr.com/QnADb8

From Facebook:

Virginia Woolf “On Craftsmanship” (the only remaining recording of her voice): http://tinyurl.com/bundhgh (via brainpickings)

3 novels and a story collection at PG –http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

More of her work (also the Essays) in Australia:http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/

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