Thank you for joining this course. I hope it has given you new insights into multilingual writing and inspired you to explore your own creative practice or to support your students on their writing journeys.
Throughout the course, I shared perspectives drawn from both my personal experience and my work with the Ós Pressan multilingual writing collective and publishing house. Together, we explored the opportunities and challenges of writing across languages, discussed practical approaches to multilingual creative work, and mapped opportunities for supporting your career and making your literary practice more sustainable.
To conclude, I encourage you to continue reading, writing, and experimenting with multilingual forms. Below, I have included a selection of texts and resources that I hope will deepen your understanding and support your future creative or teaching practice.
- Alsan, Merve. “3 Unexpected Advantages of Writing in Your Second Language”. The Writing Cooperative, 2020.
- Li, Yiyun. “To Speak Is to Blunder: Choosing to Renounce a Mother Tongue”. The New Yorker, 2017.
- Marcinek, Ewa. “Foreign Legion.” Tímarit Máls og menningar, no. 4, 2021.
- Marcinek, Ewa. “We Were Here“. Writers Adrift. 2023.
- Tawada, Yoko. Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue. 2003.